[FusionDev] Problem with latest compiz-git & compiz-fusion git pkgs

stuff stuff at johnadon.com
Wed Aug 8 13:43:39 CEST 2007


Thanks for providing the info before I pulled the rest of my hair out. :)


Sam Spilsbury skrev:
> This is due to two things:
>
> A) Compiz requiring libXCB
> B) Pretty much broken libXCB in every other distro except SUSE and any 
> others where libxcb is properly installed.
>
> Sorry, but you will have to either switch distros, or use the Compiz 
> 0.6 branch, OR use the compiz release 0.5.2.
>
> On 8/8/07, *stuff* <stuff at johnadon.com <mailto:stuff at johnadon.com>> 
> wrote:
>
>     Pardon me if I'm asking this in the wrong place - or even if I'm
>     asking
>     the wrong question regardless of place.
>
>     I'm a bad boy and like to update my git compiz-fusion installation
>     frequently. The most recent compiz update that came upstream required
>     xcb for the first time that I know of. compiz git would not let me
>     compile without the xcb package, so I dutifully git'ted all the
>     packages
>     listed on freedesktop.org <http://freedesktop.org> for xcb and
>     installed them according to the
>     directions.
>
>     Now, I can't load compiz and I get an error message:
>     compiz: xcb_xlib.c:82: xcb_xlib_unlock: Assertion `c->xlib.lock'
>     failed.
>
>     What have I done??? I've tried moving back to an older version of
>     compiz
>     and recompiling all the compiz-fusion goodies, but to no avail. I
>     still
>     get the same error message. Can anyone help?
>
>     Thanks much!
>
>     John
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