[CentOS] updating to 6.4 broke olvwm/openwin

m.roth at 5-cent.us m.roth at 5-cent.us
Fri Mar 22 19:48:58 UTC 2013


Miranda,

Miranda Hawarden-Ogata wrote:
> On 2013/03/21 11:44, Johnny Hughes wrote:
>> On 03/21/2013 04:06 PM, Miranda Hawarden-Ogata wrote:
>>> This morning a handful of workstations got upgraded from 6.3 to 6.4 and
>>> things seemed to be functional, until we tried to log in to one of our
>>> instrument accounts that for various reasons uses olvwm/openwin as the
>>> desktop (and no, I don't have the option of changing that at this
>>> time).
>>> The desktop appears to load correctly, and mouse-focus and clicking
>>> appears to work, but the .openwin-menu entries no longer function other
>>> than clicking "exit" to log out of the session. I've tried reinstalling
>>> xview and xview-client rpms, but that doesn't resolve it. I don't think
>>> it's an issue with the user account, as the underlying commands work
>>> when I su and execute them in an xterm. I was also able to reproduce
>>> the problem on three separate computers.
<snip>
> Thanks for the suggestion. I did try downgrading xorg-x11-server (and
> all its little friends) to the 6.3 versions, but that did not fix the
> problem. I've also tried rebuilding the xview set from the src rpm, but
> I wasn't able to get it to build in the not-too-long while that I spent
> on it yesterday.
<snip>
This bugs me - I still think it's a permissions or configuration issue. It
almost seems as though it's not seeing the local .openwin-menu, just some
default from somewhere.

          mark




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