F8 and BOINC
Gilboa Davara
gilboad at gmail.com
Sun Dec 9 11:32:42 UTC 2007
On Sat, 2007-12-08 at 16:35 -0500, Michael Klinosky wrote:
> I installed F8 (fresh) on one of my machines (not my primary box!), and
> BOINC seems to have some issues now.
>
> After I cleaned up the install to my prefs, I downloaded the latest &
> greatest BOINC software (5.10.21). When I tried to run the manager, I
> got "Assertion `!c->xlib.lock' failed." A search turned up some issues
> with F8 - here is one relevant to mine:
> http://staff.science.uva.nl/~hveerten/linux.html
>
> Well, I can't use that version. So I tried the former version (I left
> /home intact). However, its gui freezes as soon as it appears. If
> there's another window over it, and I bring it to the front, it's not
> updated. And, I have to force quit.
>
> A terminal works, as does Firefox.
>
> What's going on?
>
Known issue. [1]
Seems the BOINC (like java) is incompatible with new(er) X.org releases.
- Gilboa
[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=301691
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