On Mon, 7 May 2007 00:01:13 +0300 Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, 6 May 2007 10:24:09 -0600 > "Wesley J. Landaker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Tuesday 01 May 2007 01:58:49 Micha Feigin wrote: > > > Recent upgrades of sid killed matlab 7 (sp2) for me. When I try to start > > > it with the jvm active (gui) I get the error: > > > > > > MATLAB: xcb_xlib.c:50: xcb_xlib_unlock: Assertion `c->xlib.lock' failed. > > > Aborted > > > Turns out that the new xcb support is not compatible with java's awt. The only solution I found was to downgrade libx11 to pre xcb support and uninstall all xcb packages. Turns out this problem attacks anything java on any xcb enabled libx11 > > > Any idea what this is, is it solvable and whether it is a common problem > > > or only me ? > > > > No idea about your matlab issue (looks like a possible xlib > > incompatibility--you could always run matlab in a etch chroot or > > something), but I can't pass up the opportunity to recommend using octave > > <http://www.octave.org/> instead of matlab if at all posible. =) > > > > Afraid it's not even remotely possible. > I tried octave at the time but it was so far behind it was on the verge of > unusable for the real world. Scilib seemed much better but both fail on the > colaboration issue when everyone around you uses matlab (or as I just started > doing, c/c++ and fortran). > > I do computer vision and medical imaging, which means huge PDE and (non)linear > systems. Also one of octave's big drawbacks (besides being about on par with > matlab 5 without the toolboxes) is that it has terrible graphic support > (plotting/displaying data, including 3d) > > Add to that the availability of existing code ... > > Anyway, it turns out that the problem is not matlab, its something between > Java's awt and x.org (I didn't quite understand who's at fault, seems that awt > uses something that is in the specks but not properly implemented). I just > found out that jabref (open source bibref manager), freemind (open source mind > mapping tool) and maple are also dead. > > I saw some pointer towards libxrandr but it seems that it is at it's latest > version. > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]