Beryl update broke my Beryl :)

[alan]

On Thu, 1 Mar 2007, Kevin B wrote:

> alan wrote:
>> On Thu, 1 Mar 2007, Kevin B wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi
>>> 
>>> I have Beryl [from Extras] running on FC6 with latest Nvidia drivers from 
>>> Nvidia.com.
>>> Yesterday yum reported new packages including Beryl, Beryl-Manager etc
>>> so I updated them.  Now on login, Gnome starts to load the desktop and 
>>> Beryl -Manager launches
>>> and kills X and puts me back to GDM logon.  I renamed my .gnome2 and 
>>> .beryl?? folders
>>> and now I can get back into Gnome.  Manually running Beryl-Manager from 
>>> the Gnome
>>> session kicks me out again.  Logs don't show anything relevent.
>>> Any help is appreciated.
>> 
>> When I run it from the command line, it dumps out a bunch of info on 
>> features that my card supports and various options and then segfaults. 
>> Strace shows it happening somewhere during its obtaining of configuration 
>> information.  I tried removing the .beryl* config files in the home 
>> directory (in case it was an old config) and it had no effect.
>> 
> Hi
> So I understand this as saying you have the same problem after updating?

Yes.  It used to work quite well before the update. Now it just segfaults 
no matter what settings I use for Beryl.

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