sawfish-ui fails with broken pipe

On current karmic beta, the error message is somewhat different:

$ sawfish-ui
eval_req: Connection reset by peer
*** Remote sawfish error: unknown error
$

I'd be happy to try to help debug this if anyone can give me instructions.

Is no one else having this problem? I find it pretty serious.

I am experiencing the same problem. I think it has something to do with the upstream version that had the same problem but got fixed.
Upgrading would be wise here.

I downgraded my sawfish version to work with it properly for now.

The patch mentioned here http://sawfish.wikia.com/wiki/Fix_sawfish_server_connection fixed the problem for me.

I couldn't track down in what version the bug was introduced and in what version in was fixed, since the references are to SVN revisions, but they seem to have switched to git.

I confirm this with Karmic

I can confirm this bug with Karmic .

$ sawfish-ui
eval_req: Connection reset by peer
*** Remote sawfish error: unknown error

I'm using sawfish 1.3.5.2-1

uname -a
Linux *** 2.6.31-19-generic #56-Ubuntu SMP Thu Jan 28 01:26:53 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux

This is on a 32 bit AMD processor.
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I have a similar installation on an AMD64 (64 bit kernel) and sawfish-ui works fine.

$ uname -a
Linux *** 2.6.31-20-generic #57-Ubuntu SMP Mon Feb 8 09:02:26 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux

I see the same thing in lucid. Is this package maintained in Ubuntu? There seems to be no individual listed.

According to "git log src/server.c", it's:

commit ff1212a2006f195fa35335e1a6432cfb3ab51e7b
Author: Christopher Bratusek <email address hidden>
Date: Sun Dec 28 19:16:32 2008 +0000

    fixed an "unknown remote error", that might appear

    svn path=/trunk/; revision=4338

This bug was fixed in the package sawfish - 1:1.3.5.2-1ubuntu2

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sawfish (1:1.3.5.2-1ubuntu2) maverick; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/remote_sawfish_error.patch:
    Cherry-pick relevant code hunk from upstream git changeset
    ff1212a2006f195fa35335e1a6432cfb3ab51e7b to resolve fatal
    error at runtime. (LP: #433358)
 -- Daniel T Chen <email address hidden> Fri, 02 Jul 2010 02:06:11 -0400

Lucid SRU needs a patch added or linked to from this bug and a test case. (also approval from ubuntu-sru)

Please see the bug description; the patch is linked from bazaar (viewable
through loggerhead) and the test case as well.

On Jul 20, 2010 9:57 AM, "Jonathan Riddell" <email address hidden> wrote:

Lucid SRU needs a patch added or linked to from this bug and a test
case. (also approval from ubuntu-sru)

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sawfish-ui fails with broken pipe
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/433358
You received this bug ...

Accepted sawfish into lucid-proposed, the package will build now and be available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback here. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

From apt-cache showpkg:

1:1.3.5.2-1ubuntu1.1 (/var/lib/apt/lists/archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_lucid-proposed_universe_binary-amd64_Packages) (/var/lib/dpkg/status)

So I think I'm using the right package

Several problems:
1 I created a test account (with a fresh homedir) and chose sawfish on the login screen, I got nothing on log in. None of my mouse buttons do anything (I think it was middle-click to get the sawfish menu to launch things).

2 rep is not installed and so sawfish-ui still gives me "exec: 8: rep: not found". So the dependencies seem busted.

That said, with rep installed #2 goes away and I can kill metacity, start sawfish and successfully start sawfish-ui.

I have not tried logging into my every-day account with sawfish as the WM yet, I have a lot of state on my desktop that I don't want to get rid of right now.

Fergal, please file a separate bug for the missing dependency on rep.

Accepted sawfish into lucid-proposed, the package will build now and be available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback here. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

SRU verification for Lucid:
I have reproduced the problem with sawfish 1:1.3.5.2-1ubuntu1 in lucid and have verified that the version of sawfish 1:1.3.5.2-1ubuntu1.2 in -proposed fixes the issue.

But because of bug 573197 (sawfish < 1.5.2 incompatible with rep >= 0.90) sawfish-ui can not be started.

I'm marking as verification-done because the issue reported here is fixed but the package still need a fix in order to be used.

Daniel, do you plan to port the fix to Karmic or is it a won't fix ?

This bug was fixed in the package sawfish - 1:1.3.5.2-1ubuntu1.2

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sawfish (1:1.3.5.2-1ubuntu1.2) lucid-proposed; urgency=low

  * Add rep as an explicit dependency of sawfish, otherwise sawfish-ui
    fails. (LP: #616115)

sawfish (1:1.3.5.2-1ubuntu1.1) lucid-proposed; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/remote_sawfish_error.patch:
    Cherry-pick relevant code hunk from upstream git changeset
    ff1212a2006f195fa35335e1a6432cfb3ab51e7b to resolve fatal
    error at runtime. (LP: #433358)
 -- Daniel T Chen <email address hidden> Sun, 15 Aug 2010 15:22:38 -0400

Karmic has long since stopped to receive any updates. Marking the Karmic task for this ticket as "Won't Fix".