Public bug reported:
Upgrading from Ubuntu 10.04 to 10.10, I ran update-manager -d and
let 'er rip for the 10.10 upgrade. The window manager crashed (that
is, I still had the gnome menus at top and bottom of the screen, but no
window borders or decorations.). Fair enough, no big deal.
BUT, dist-upgrade appeared to hang updating a font package, and
control-dragging the terminal out of the way (it can be dragged by it's
menu bar) I found it "hung" because of a msttcorefonts EULA window. I
could click "I accept" but the dist-upgrade window blocked the "next"
button, there's no way without a window manager to drag the dist-upgrade
window, and I couldn't force the EULA window to get keyboard focus
either.
Running gnome-wm in a text console (after doing export
DISPLAY=:0.0) it gave an error regarding libgdk_pixbuf-2.0 and would not
run. (This system was given an extensive upgrade recently, it was
previously just a bit too sluggish with desktop effects, so they're
turned off still. Therefore "gnome-wm" should run metacity and not
compiz.) I ended up copying a twm binary from one of my gentoo systems
and running that so I could regain window controls.
I left the package as "I don't know" because, really, is this some
dependency problem dist-upgrade should deal with, is it a problem with
either libgdk_pixbuf installing but not configuring something, is it a
problem with metacity binary being replaced but not restarted? I don't
know.
** Affects: ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/692389
Title:
window manager closes during dist-upgrade
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