Hi first I would like say that I've being using awesome for over a year and I'm really happy with it.
now the issue I need help with. background: new laptop, formatted from scratch with Ubuntu 14.04 installed. sudo apt-get install awesome (everything OK) log out log in using awesome as wm issue: Mod+r (the prompt appears) type gedit and press "enter" (the app is opened OK) type ged and press "tab" (I'm kicked off to the log-in screen) context info ale@smp:~$ uname -a Linux smp 3.13.0-27-generic #50-Ubuntu SMP Thu May 15 18:06:16 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux ale@smp:~$ awesome -v awesome v3.4.15 (Never Gonna Give You Up) • Build: Jan 23 2014 14:28:37 for x86_64 by gcc version 4.8.2 (buildd@komainu) • D-Bus support: ✔ this is the log of the error (process:3868): GLib-WARNING **: GError set over the top of a previous GError or uninitialized memory. This indicates a bug in someone's code. You must ensure an error is NULL before it's set. The overwriting error message was: Failed to execute child process "" (No such file or directory) E: awesome: signal_fatal:225: dumping backtrace awesome(backtrace_get+0x41) [0x43c9f1] awesome() [0x40e8cc] /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(+0x36ff0) [0x7f856cb01ff0] /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(cfree+0x1c) [0x7f856cb4ec4c] /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0(g_error_free+0x12) [0x7f856f1f9332] awesome(spawn_system+0xba) [0x429c6a] awesome() [0x426cea] /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblua5.1.so.0(+0xbfb8) [0x7f856d3e7fb8] /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblua5.1.so.0(+0x166ff) [0x7f856d3f26ff] /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblua5.1.so.0(+0xc3fd) [0x7f856d3e83fd] /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblua5.1.so.0(+0xb6eb) [0x7f856d3e76eb] /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblua5.1.so.0(+0xc58a) [0x7f856d3e858a] /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblua5.1.so.0(lua_pcall+0x4d) [0x7f856d3e434d] awesome() [0x41b3b8] awesome(event_handle+0xb5) [0x41b875] awesome() [0x40e846] /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libev.so.4(ev_invoke_pending+0x55) [0x7f856d60ce45] /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libev.so.4(ev_run+0x907) [0x7f856d60ffe7] awesome(main+0x92f) [0x40e61f] /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf5) [0x7f856caecec5] awesome() [0x40e72e] I'm using the default rc.lua in /etc/xdg/awesome/rc.lua I tried using dmenu but it didn't work either Hope anyone has an idea to fix this.
