[wplug] Gnome crashes under X4.0.2

[Zach Paine]

On Sun, Apr 01, 2001 at 12:54:31PM -0400, David G Matthews wrote:
> I recently upgraded to X 4.0.2, and have had some problems with Gnome
> crashing.  As far as I can tell, this does not hapen under any other
> window manager.  (I have tried Blackbox and KDE 1.x)  I'm not sure exactly
> what version of Gnome I am using, but I doubt it's the most recent one
> since it came with my distro (SuSE 7.0).  It running on top of Sawfish
> (again, I'm not sure which version).  I never had any problems with this
> configuration under X 3.3.6, so it makes me wonder: do I need to upgrade
> my Gnome and/or Sawfish to work with X 4.0.2?  It seems to crash most
> frequently when I'm away from the box - I'll come back and find it frozen
> on the screensaver, and it won't respond to the keyboard or mouse.  

You may want to look into upgrading Xscreensaver first.  If the problem
persists then upgrade gnome and sawfish, but I don't think the problem lies
with gnome/sawfish.

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