Beryl update broke my Beryl :)

[alan]

On Thu, 1 Mar 2007, Kevin B wrote:

> Hi
>
> I have Beryl [from Extras] running on FC6 with latest Nvidia drivers from 
> Nvidia.com.
> Yesterday yum reported new packages including Beryl, Beryl-Manager etc
> so I updated them.  Now on login, Gnome starts to load the desktop and Beryl 
> -Manager launches
> and kills X and puts me back to GDM logon.  I renamed my .gnome2 and .beryl?? 
> folders
> and now I can get back into Gnome.  Manually running Beryl-Manager from the 
> Gnome
> session kicks me out again.  Logs don't show anything relevent.
> Any help is appreciated.

When I run it from the command line, it dumps out a bunch of info on 
features that my card supports and various options and then segfaults. 
Strace shows it happening somewhere during its obtaining of configuration 
information.  I tried removing the .beryl* config files in the home 
directory (in case it was an old config) and it had no effect.

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