Sawfish crash

[rew]

After upgrading from 15.10, xenial-sawfish stops with an error indicating that wallpaper can't be found.
Turns out it is looking for wallpaper.jl or wallpaper.jlc. I searched for the file, installed it where it could find it, and that is currently my workaround.

I reported it as "returns to login prompt", because that's what would normally happen. I've seen sawfish crashes in the past, and I've recently figured out enough to maybe catch it in the act to make a sensible report about it. But since Xenial is so close that's not worth persuing. Those crashes (losing my x session) were so annoying that I have wrapped sawfish in a script that asks: really quit? before exiting the loop of restarting sawfish.

So... somehow the wallpaper.jl is not being included the package.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: xorg 1:7.7+13ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-18.34-generic 4.4.6
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-18-generic x86_64
.tmp.unity_support_test.0:

ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
CompizPlugins: No value set for `/apps/compiz-1/general/screen0/options/active_plugins'
CompositorRunning: None
Date: Sun Apr 17 09:55:51 2016
DistUpgraded: 2016-04-16 20:51:02,019 DEBUG Running PostInstallScript: './xorg_fix_proprietary.py'
DistroCodename: xenial
DistroVariant: ubuntu
DkmsStatus:
 virtualbox, 5.0.16, 4.2.0-35-generic, x86_64: installed
 virtualbox, 5.0.16, 4.4.0-18-generic, x86_64: installed
ExtraDebuggingInterest: Yes
GraphicsCard:
 NVIDIA Corporation GF119 [GeForce GT 610] [10de:104a] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
   Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. GF119 [GeForce GT 610] [1043:8496]
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-11-16 (517 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140722.2)
MachineType: ASUS All Series
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.4.0-18-generic root=UUID=1bf2d530-c709-4cd6-9048-ab7aa16135e0 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
SourcePackage: xorg
Symptom: display
Title: Xorg crash
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to xenial on 2016-04-16 (0 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 05/15/2014
dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
dmi.bios.version: 0908
dmi.board.asset.tag: To be filled by O.E.M.
dmi.board.name: B85M-G
dmi.board.vendor: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC.
dmi.board.version: Rev X.0x
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: Asset-1234567890
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: Chassis Manufacture
dmi.chassis.version: Chassis Version
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvr0908:bd05/15/2014:svnASUS:pnAllSeries:pvrSystemVersion:rvnASUSTeKCOMPUTERINC.:rnB85M-G:rvrRevX.0x:cvnChassisManufacture:ct3:cvrChassisVersion:
dmi.product.name: All Series
dmi.product.version: System Version
dmi.sys.vendor: ASUS
version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.12.2+16.04.20160331-0ubuntu1
version.ia32-libs: ia32-libs N/A
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.67-1
version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 11.2.0-1ubuntu2
version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A
version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 11.2.0-1ubuntu2
version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.18.3-1ubuntu2
version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.10.1-1ubuntu2
version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati N/A
version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel N/A
version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:1.0.12-1build2
xserver.bootTime: Sun Apr 17 08:21:06 2016
xserver.configfile: default
xserver.devices:
 input Power Button KEYBOARD, id 6
 input Power Button KEYBOARD, id 7
 input Eee PC WMI hotkeys KEYBOARD, id 8
 input AT Translated Set 2 keyboard KEYBOARD, id 9
 input ImPS/2 Logitech Wheel Mouse MOUSE, id 10
xserver.errors:
 Failed to load module "nvidia" (module does not exist, 0)
 Failed to load module "nvidia" (module does not exist, 0)
xserver.logfile: /var/log/Xorg.0.log
xserver.version: 2:1.18.3-1ubuntu2
xserver.video_driver: nouveau

[Paul White (paulw2u)]

We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to review all reported bugs in a timely manner. You reported this bug some time ago and there have been many changes in Ubuntu since that time.

Ubuntu 16.04 (xenial) reached end-of-life on April 29, 2021.

Do you still see a problem related to the one that you reported when using a currently supported version of Ubuntu? Please let us know if you do otherwise this report can be left to expire in approximately 60 days time.

Thank you for helping make Ubuntu better.

[rew (r-e-wolff)]

When I start a sawfish session I still get a complaint from sawfish: "error, click to continue". I tracked this down to a file that is distributed with sawfish not being included in the ubuntu package. Once I tracked it down, I of course installed it, but on both my workstations an upgrade has negated that effort and now it complains again every time I log in. No I'm no longer on 16.04. (but not yet on 21.x).

I /am/ using my own session script, but the one with Ubuntu either is the same with regards to this or it is worse (closes sawfish and therefore the session).

When patching such things, I usually stop at "works for me" and in this case I have some customization for myself that I like and put in. But if you promise it won't be for nothing, then I'd be happy to provide a "for general use" patch, as long as that means it'll work "reasonably" for me "out of the box" on future Ubuntu releases. If you ignore my efforts and I will still have to fix it in the future I certainly won't waste my time making something "for general use".

[Paul White (paulw2u)]

@rew, this issue has now been moved to the appropriate package, sawfish rather than the more general 'bucket' of xorg which at the time of your bug report was probably not receiving the attention that it required hence my intervention today in trying to clear up old unresolved bug reports.

There seems to have been few changes in this package in recent releases of Ubuntu (https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sawfish) so I am unsure how this bug report will fare but hopefully better now as it has been assigned to the correct package.

I'm unsubscribing and leaving to someone that specifically deals with the sawfish package.