Re: [kde-linux] X problem trying to run KDE4
- Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 14:30:37 -0700
- From: James Richard Tyrer <tyrerj@xxxxxxx>
- Subject: Re: [kde-linux] X problem trying to run KDE4
Rod Butcher wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-06-15 at 16:10 -0700, James Richard Tyrer wrote:
>> When I try to start the KDE4 desktop or a KDE4 app, I always get this
>> error message:
>>
>> xcb_xlib.c:50: xcb_xlib_unlock: Assertion `c->xlib.lock' failed.
>>From memory (+- 1 year ago), that is an assertion in libxcb that
> deliberately crashes if it thinks the program that called it is doing
> something incorrectly. Since KDE 4 is a development release still, that
> assertion needs to be turned off in xcb. Just comment out the line of
> code in xcb and recompile it.
Yes, that does work.
I have done further research on Google and a less restrictive search
does turn up many similar errors.
I have found that distros apply a patch to xcb to fix this. It doesn't
work in this instance.
--
JRT
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