As a temporary stop-gap fix, I wrote a shell script (attached) that
continually restarts StumpWM. Unfortunately, when StumpWM dies to an error
it still seems to emit code 0, so I can't decide when to end the restarts
based on that. Killing the script will kill Stump and stop the loop.


On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 11:47 AM, David Bjergaard <dbjerga...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> I have to admit, I forgot about this issue. I've updated the issue
> tracker with this thread and the latest developments, hopefully we can
> figure out a fix, this is clearly affecting more than one user.
>
> https://github.com/stumpwm/stumpwm/issues/96
>
>     Dave
>
> "J. David Smith" <emall...@archlinux.us> writes:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am having this exact problem with StumpWM right now. Was this ever
> > resolved? I built StumpWM from the latest git pull. I haven't tried
> > reverting back to the last tagged release yet.
> >
> > My scenario is this: a (corporate) laptop running Ubuntu 12.04 LTS is
> > connected to an external monitor. Xorg is handling autodetection and
> > configuration.
> >
> > I have attached a very interesting log file: it seems that Xorg is
> > removing ALL heads, which is what triggers the errors. I don't know if
> > this is typically how Xorg handles these things, but it is very
> > frustrating to go through a long bootup process every time I
> > disconnect the monitor (reconnecting works fine).
> >
> > I intend to try disabling the autodetection (once I figure out how,
> > all GNOME services are still running because I need some things for
> > work) and using XRandR, which has worked well on my personal laptop.
> >
> > On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 1:58 AM, Eric Abrahamsen
> > <e...@ericabrahamsen.net> wrote:
> >
> >     David Bjergaard <dbjerga...@gmail.com> writes:
> >
> >     > This is integrated into the main branch... I reworked some
> >     patches to
> >     > avoid clobbering other behavior. I admit I probably missed
> >     > something. Are you saying that this commit created this bug or
> >     fixed it?
> >     >
> >     > Dave
> >
> >
> >     My sense is that this commit was meant to address the problem in
> >     question, but didn't quite do it, possibly because of that :key
> >     clause.
> >     I can help with testing in a bit, as I can reliably reproduce the
> >     problem.
> >
> >
> >
> >     > iii_...@aol.co.uk writes:
> >     >
> >     >> This one?
> >     >>
> >     >>
> >
> https://github.com/stumpwm/stumpwm/commit/8a59c96f340351559f87a39685268e8c15a98e0e
> >     >>
> >     >> iii_...@aim.com
> >     >>
> >     >>
> >     >> -----Original Message-----
> >     >> From: David Bjergaard <dbjerga...@gmail.com>
> >     >> To: Eric Abrahamsen <e...@ericabrahamsen.net>
> >     >> Cc: stumpwm-devel <stumpwm-devel@nongnu.org>
> >     >> Sent: Sun, Apr 27, 2014 5:22 am
> >     >> Subject: Re: [STUMP] Crash Report
> >     >>
> >     >>
> >     >>
> >     >>
> >     >>>> This appears related to
> >     https://github.com/stumpwm/stumpwm/issues/71.
> >     >>>
> >     >>> I'm pretty sure this is it, and pretty sure this is related to
> >     the bug
> >     >>> where removing an external monitor causes the same error. As
> >     far as I
> >     >>> know this was meant to be addressed by commit 8a59c9 "Head
> >     hotfix" on
> >     >>> the experimental branch, but no one seemed to understand the
> >     patch
> >     >> well
> >     >>> enough to make a decision about it!
> >     >>>
> >     >>> Eric
> >     >> Hi Eric, can you provide a specific link so I can look it over?
> >     >>
> >     >> Dave
> >     >>
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