[SOLVED] AWN died

I've held off posting for a couple of days whilst I searched, but I'm finding nada.
At some point in the past couple of days, awn has stopped working with:
** (avant-window-navigator:20529): CRITICAL **: desktop_agnostic_config_schema_get_metadata_option: assertion 'self != NULL' failed
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
Now, I've had kernel updates, gtk2 & 3 and glib, but rolling them all back doesn't help. Does anyone have any idea what this may relate to?
Using testing, for information.
Last edited by Roken (2013-11-15 14:17:12)

AWN was was dropped from the official repos today because of incompatibilities with the new gnome packages and deps. It was on the mailing list.
Found it:
City-busz wrote:
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2013 21:25:28 +0200
From: Balló György <[email protected]>
To: "Discussion about the Arch User Repository (AUR)" <[email protected]>
Subject: [aur-general] Dropping Avant Window Navigator
Message-ID: <CAK4rBJQz3Y=[email protected]>
Hi,
I'll drop the following packages from the [community] repository,
because Avant Window Navigator no longer works with GNOME 3.10
(crashes on startup), upstream is dead, and I can't fix it:
- avant-window-navigator
- awn-extras-applets
- gnome-menus2
- libdesktop-agnostic
If anyone interested in fixing this problem, then check the related bug report:
https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/37226
Recommended alternatives are cairo-dock and docky.
György Balló (City-busz)
Trusted User
Last edited by WonderWoofy (2013-10-08 03:30:47)

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Swarfega wrote:I did the command from SSH when putty lost connection.
won't be a problem anymore, since nothing depends on the ssh connection anymore.
You just reconnect, screen -r and go on.
Second: as you see in the second quote, he didn't say anything about a kernel panic, just a lost ssh connection and the problems it caused. If you use screen on the server, literally nothing happens if you lose your ssh connection, you can even scroll back in screen to see what happened while you disconnected.
Last edited by frette (2012-05-09 12:47:53)

[SOLVED] AWN died

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