Window Maker: does it run for you these days?

[James Michael Fultz]

* Paul Johnson <pauljohn32 at gmail.com> [2009-10-14 17:22 -0500]:
> On Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty) on a amd64 system, I installed the wmaker
> package.  I have used WM before on i386 systems without trouble, but
> 64 bits seems to be a big trouble.  I'd ask the WM community, but it
> seems to have gone the way of unsliced bread and horse drawn carriages
> (http://www.windowmaker.info exists, but mail lists not current).
> 
> When I try to run wmaker (after killing other window managers), I get
> a big old horrible crash, the sort of which I've not seen before.
> $ wmaker
> *** buffer overflow detected ***: /usr/lib/WindowMaker/WindowMaker terminated
> ======= Backtrace: =========
> /lib/libc.so.6(__fortify_fail+0x37)[0x7f7ba559f2c7]
> [...]

Sorry, I have no idea what it could be, but it does look like
a candidate for a bug report to me.  I would take the same information
you've provided over to <https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/> and file
a report.