Re: [SLUG] Java and Fedora Core 8

2007-12-04 Thread Matthew Hannigan
Here's redhat's bugzilla ref https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=301691 For what it's worth, Sun HAVE ack'd it as a java bug and have a fix in an upcoming release. Matt -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/

Re: [SLUG] Java and Fedora Core 8

2007-12-04 Thread David P
This problem also shipped with openSUSE 10.3; however it is easily fixed by doing a YaST Online Update (the patch to xorg-x11-libxcb causes a warning to be displayed instead of terminating). However, some applications still produce other errors related to xcb, which the xorg-x11-libxcb update (and

[SLUG] Java and Fedora Core 8

2007-12-03 Thread Jan Newmarch
Hi After lurking on this list for many years, it's time I contributed. Sun's Java under FC 8 is broken, and no Java apps that use X11 will run. Error is xcb_xlib.c:50: xcb_xlib_unlock: Assertion 'c->xlib.lock' failed Other distros may have the same problem. Sun claim it is a bug with