[Xcb] libx11 with Xlib/XCB now in experimental - trouble;

[Barton C Massey]

As of late last week, we have both a good solid workaround
idea for this, and some buy-in on getting Java patched to
fix the problem.  Unfortunately, both of these things will
take a bit of time.  Thanks much for your patience.  In the
meantime, I think there's a patched version of libxcb around
somewhere that will avoid the failing checks.  As long as
you don't try to execute code that uses the "Xinerama"
extension, that should solve your problem :-).  Perhaps
someone can provide a pointer?

    Bart Massey
    Assoc. Prof. Computer Science
    Portland State University
    bart at cs.pdx.edu


In message <46A97D73.2020501 at oracle.com> you wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> thanks for all your work on these packages.
> 
> However...
> I get following error:
>     xcb_xlib.c:50: xcb_xlib_unlock: Assertion `c->xlib.lock' failed.
> 
> You state:...these represent bugs in a caller of libX11, and *not* in
> libX11 or libxcb...
> 
> This may be pretty so. But what can I do about it? This error even
> occurs with a simple "jconsole". The java application failing is "jnbSA"
> is part of netbackup5 that I need @WORK. I have no idea how to solve
> this if the java application is faulty.
> 
> I am no developer. My idea is to provide a switch to avoid these
> "additional code to check for bugs in calling software".
> No idea if that will be possible.
> 
> Any hint will be much appreciated!