problems with java on fedora 8 (has this been asked before?)

[Tom Horsley]

On Thu, 6 Dec 2007 11:29:46 -0600 (CST)
"Steve Strong" <strong at crwash.org> wrote:

> I get this error message:
> java: xcb_xlib.c:50: xcb_xlib_unlock: Assertion `c->xlib.lock' failed.
> Aborted
> 
> anybody know what this means???

There is an infinitely long bugzilla about libxcb and the foolish
asserts they added to it. At the moment, while waiting for an
official fix, I enabled the development repo and updated libxcb
from it, then set the environment variable LIBXCB_ALLOW_SLOPPY_LOCK="1"

See bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=390261

(This breaks lots of code, not just java).