Package: wyrd Version: 1.4.4-1 Followup-For: Bug #491834
Personally, I'm bitten by this assertion quite often (few times a day), which I can partly attribute to running a tiled window manager: tiling window managers tend to resize windows much more often and more aggresivethen 'traditional' window managers, thus often exposing bugs in the handling of terminal resizing in applications (or even in the linux kernel pty driver!) According to the previous reply, the reported assertion is due to wyrd requiring a terminal of at least 80x23 chars. I don't happen to speak fluent caml, but after browsing through the source and changing the required width and height checks to a smaller size in interface_main.c, I was able to run wyrd on a smaller terminal then 80x23 without problems. For me it seems that the given assertion occurs when wyrd is no longer able to fit all components on the screen: as soon as the terminal is too small to draw both the timed reminders and the calendar, the reported assertions will trigger. Thus, the size 80x23 seems arbitrary, since the exact size depends on the size of the various objects on the screen, and the value of the user-defined variable 'untimed_window_width' in the configuration file. I think the proper fix would be to handle drawing a bit more flexible, probably allowing parts of the calender to fall outside the screen, instead of throwing an assertion and aborting the program. My current workaround is to run wyrd from a small script that tries to restart wyrd in a loop when it dies, not charming but is does the job. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (990, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.25.4 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO-8859-1 (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages wyrd depends on: ii less 418-1 Pager program similar to more ii libc6 2.7-16 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libncursesw5 5.7+20090105-1 shared libraries for terminal hand ii remind 03.01.05-2 a sophisticated reminder service wyrd recommends no packages. wyrd suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
