I've used windowmaker for years from freebsd system. Now I use suse/sles at work
and at home. windowmaker0.92 works well on my old suse9.3pro box. I've tried to
launch it on 10.0rc1.
unfortunately, I have got strange bug. wmaker launching, I can see background
image with small window on it - "FATAL ERROR, wmaker got signal 6, probably due
to a bug e.t.c." and menu with abort with core/restart/exit".
and I see "*** buffer overflow detected ***: wmaker terminated" in my console.
I've tried to launch X with wmaker under root account and it works perfectly.
I've drop this problem for an hour and rebuild windowmaker from srpm with
"--enable-modelock" configure key (I like wmaker keyboard indicator) and
reinstall it. Unfortunately, wmaker doesn't work under ordinary user.
I tried to understand what the difference between root and other user
environment and discovered (IMHO) the reason - locale setting. I've tried to add
"exec wmaker --no-polling --locale C" to my .xinitrc and, oh, the windowmaker
launched (of course with non-localized menus and so on).
I've tried to change users locale to en_US.UTF-8 and windowmaker worked again. I
switched locale back to ru_RU.UTF-8 and wmaker crashed again. I remove sef-build
wmaker and installed original package, but it still didn't work with my locale.
So, I've added strace output and wrote this bug report :)
You can found strace output at http://test.obltelecom.ru/wmaker.strace
Packages list available at http://test.obltelecom.ru/packages.list
/home/lslarry> uname -a
Linux susepro 2.6.13-3-default #1 Mon Aug 29 19:48:23 UTC 2005 i686 i686 i386
GNU/Linux
/home/lslarry> cat /proc/cpuinfo 
processor       : 0
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 15
model           : 2
model name      : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1.70GHz
stepping        : 4
cpu MHz         : 1694.828
cache size      : 512 KB
fdiv_bug        : no
hlt_bug         : no
f00f_bug        : no
coma_bug        : no
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 2
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov
pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm
bogomips        : 3393.07
/home/lslarry> gcc -v
Using built-in specs.
Target: i586-suse-linux
Configured with: ../configure --enable-threads=posix --prefix=/usr
--with-local-prefix=/usr/local --infodir=/usr/share/info --mandir=/usr/share/man
--libdir=/usr/lib --libexecdir=/usr/lib
--enable-languages=c,c++,objc,f95,java,ada --disable-checking
--with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/c++/4.0.2 --enable-java-awt=gtk
--disable-libjava-multilib --with-slibdir=/lib --with-system-zlib
--enable-shared --enable-__cxa_atexit --without-system-libunwind
--host=i586-suse-linux
Thread model: posix
gcc version 4.0.2 20050901 (prerelease) (SUSE Linux)

I use compaq evo ws

this bug report available as http://test.obltelecom.ru/suse-bug.txt