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

Sam Spilsbury smspillaz at gmail.com
Thu Aug 9 01:28:32 CEST 2007


No problem. Hopefully we can find a a way around this soon. (Or trevino will
try to make a pacakge that doesnt require this :-P)

On 8/8/07, stuff <stuff at johnadon.com> wrote:
>
> 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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