x11-wm/awesome fail to start

[Renato Botelho]

On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 11:11 PM, Joseph Olatt <joji at eskimo.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm having trouble getting x11-wm/awesome (3.4.9) to start up. I'm
> getting the following error on start up.
>
> W: awesome: image_new_from_file:288: cannot load image
> /usr/local/share/awesome/icons/awesome16.png: unknown error, that's
> really bad
> /usr/local/share/awesome/lib/awful/menu.lua:221: attempt to compare
> number with nil
> W: awesome: image_new_from_file:288: cannot load image
> /usr/local/share/awesome/icons/awesome16.png: unknown error, that's
> really bad
> /usr/local/share/awesome/lib/awful/menu.lua:221: attempt to compare
> number with nil
> E: awesome: main:505: couldn't find any rc file
>
>
>
> I have the rc.lua files at:
>
> joji at mint> ls -l ~/.config/awesome/rc.lua
> -rw-r--r--  1 joji  joji  13802 Feb  1 18:19 /home/joji/.config/awesome/rc.lua
>
>                                                                                                                                           [~]
> joji at mint> ls -l /usr/local/etc/xdg/awesome/rc.lua
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  13802 Feb  1 18:54 /usr/local/etc/xdg/awesome/rc.lua
>
>
>
> Anybody else have these problems. I have another machine running awesome
> 3.4.8 and that is running fine.

Have you tried to rename ~/.config/awesome and start it with default
configuration?

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Renato Botelho