204157 2008-01-03 07:32 0000 rox-start crashes ... looks like a typo in the script 2008-01-03 18:57:09 0000 1 1 1 Unclassified Gentoo Linux Ebuilds 2007.0 All Linux RESOLVED FIXED P2 normal --- 1 znmeb@cesmail.net rox@gentoo.org znmeb@cesmail.net 2008-01-03 07:32:52 0000 I emerged all the rox-* ebuilds and tried to start the rox session with gdm. Unfortunately, it crashed. The problem is in line 21-22 of the shell script /usr/bin/rox-start: for wm in xfwm4 sawfish sawmill enlightenment wmaker icewm blackbox fluxbox \\ metacity kwin kwm fvwm2 fvwm 4Dwm twm; do That double backslash at the end of line 21 is forcing bash to interpret the "metacity" in the next line as a command, which crashes X. It's a little better if I change line 21 to have a single backslash at the end. Then it finds the first window manager in the list, "wmaker" on my machine, and starts up, but it's still giving an error. There's a dialog box on the screen that reads: rox-start: failed to run /usr/lib/rox/ROX-Session/AppRun If you installed this from the rox-session ebuild, this shouldn't ever happen. Please report this bug to http://bugs.gentoo.org/ I'll try to give you an xterm and a filer window instead - try to find and run ROX-Session to fix the problem. Close the xterm to logout. If all else fails, delete your .xsession and .xinitrc files to get the system defaults. Good luck! I haven't tried any of this yet -- it said to file a bug, so I did. I didn't get the xterm and filer window. I'll dig up ROX-Session and attach it. znmeb@cesmail.net 2008-01-03 07:45:14 0000 No "ROX-Session" anywhere on the system -- "slocate -u" and "locate" can't find it. It looks like the "rox-session" ebuild didn't install everything it's supposed to. lack@gentoo.org 2008-01-03 18:15:15 0000 Fun and exciting! I'll see what I can do. Thanks for the report. lack@gentoo.org 2008-01-03 18:16:22 0000 By the way, which version of rox-session did you actually install? lack@gentoo.org 2008-01-03 18:57:09 0000 Nevermind what version, I know it was 0.30-r1. I have fixed this in 0.30-r2, coming soon to an rsync mirror near you!