>>>> I installed rawhide on an asus eeepc 901 last night... can't say its >>>> been the most enjoyable experience. >>>> >>>> But the big issue I'm seeing which is basically making X unusable >>>> seems to be because metacity is segfaulting (details below). >>> >>> Hi, please see: >>> >>> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/StackTraces >>> >>> And file a bug against metacity with the associated trace. >>> >>> (Someday we will finish http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/CrashHandling >>> and this manual work will not be necessary) >> >> OK, I can install debug packages and log tickets without issue but I >> have no idea given that its crashing as I login through GDM I have no >> idea how I'd add GDB to that. > > Go to the console and run it through startx. You can just invoke > metacity as your regular window manager. > > echo xterm > ~/.xinitrc > > Then from the fresh xterm, you can run metacity through gdb. Maybe it > won't be triggered, though, unless you run a full gnome-session. > > Matthias' suggestion might be easier, though. Maybe, so is the change it to compiz or something that doesn't break... but then that doesn't move the release forward for the better either... I was hoping for the former so I could actually use my nice new netbook, but I'll gather the useful info first... is it possible to change WM from the command line though? gconf or something? Peter -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
