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Date:      Fri, 31 Aug 2007 00:18:41 +0530
From:      Subhro <subhro.kar@gmail.com>
To:        "Robert Noland" <rnoland@2hip.net>
Cc:        ports@freebsd.org, Patrick Hurrelmann <outi@bytephobia.de>
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD Port: compiz-0.5.0
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Hello Robert,

Yes I have also noted that compiz is segfaulting. I have asked this in
#compiz-fusion in freenode. They also didn't have much clue. Maybe a
dump would  be more useful?

Also you can commit it in the current state mentioning in pkg-message
about the crash?

Subhro

On 8/30/07, Robert Noland <rnoland@2hip.net> wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-08-29 at 23:38 +0200, Patrick Hurrelmann wrote:
> > On Mon, 20 Aug 2007 01:16:53 -0400
> > "Robert C. Noland III" <rnoland@2hip.net> wrote:
> >
> > > On Mon, 2007-08-20 at 02:59 +0530, Subhro wrote:
> > > > Hello,
> > > >
> > > > I have compiled the FreeBSD port for compiz 0.5.0 and experiencing
> > > > random crashes of gtk-window-decorator. The crashes seem to be when
> > > > closing a nautilus window. However the occurance is random. I have
> > > > checked up with #compiz on irc.freenode.net and they have to say
> > > > that some X window handling bugs have been detected and fixed in
> > > > the next version 0.5.2.
> > > >
> > > > This is release is already available on the website and therefore I
> > > > would request you to kindly bump up the version of the ports.
> > >
> > > I'm already working on 0.5.2, it will be a few more days though as
> > > this also picks up compiz-fusion which is another 10 or so ports...
> > > I have most all of them completed, but I need to resolve a few
> > > remaining issues if I can...
> > >
> > > robert.
> > >
> > > > Thanks
> > > > Subhro
> > >
> >
> > Hi Robert,
> >
> > thanks for your effort of porting compiz-fusion. I just tried the
> > recent updates of emerald 0.5.2 (that are still pending it their PRs)
> > and all works fine, except emerald dumping core on a 5min basis on
> > CURRENT.
> >
> > But to ease your porting effort a bit I did a very quick shot on the
> > compizconfig part. I attached 4 skeleton ports for compizconfig/ccsm.
> > Maybe they are helpful and can speedup your your valuable work a bit ;)
> >
> > I also made the ports available online. The shars can be found here:
> >
> > http://www.bytephobia.de/freebsd/ports/
> >  - ccsm_0.5.2.shar
> >  - compizconfig-backend-gconf_0.5.2.shar
> >  - compizconfig-python_0.5.2.shar
> >  - libcompizconfig_0.5.2.shar
>
> Ok, Just to maybe prevent more people from doing work.  I already have
> ports of these complete.  The reason that they are not yet committed is
> that when enabling/disabling plugins via ccsm, it is causing compiz to
> segfault.  I haven't yet tracked the root cause of this.  As long as I
> enable/disable plugins via gconf editor it's all reasonably stable.
>
> If people want me to commit it in it's current state, I'm fine with
> that.  Perhaps someone else can track down the cause of the segfault.  I
> just didn't want hundreds of e-mails telling me it's broken...
>
> robert.
>
> > Please note that these ports are not complete and may harm your system.
> > At least it made ccsm run on my system and I was able to configure the
> > compiz-fusion plugins.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Patrick
> >
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-- 
Subhro Kar
Software Engineer
Dynamic Digital Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
EPY-3, Sector: V
Salt Lake City
700091
India



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