[gobolinux-users] Java

[Michael Homer]

On 5/23/07, joe junior <joependragon at hotmail.com> wrote:
> I'm havind some problems with java runtime! I installed it using the binary
> file from the sun website, couldn' find a Recipe or package so..., then
> moved the content to a folder /Programs/Java/6.0_01, the symlinked! The
> problem is that I'm having a "java: xcb_xlib.c:50: xcb_xlib_unlock:
> Assertion `c->xlib.lock' failed." error! Opera recognizes it as a plugin,
> but when I access a site with java content it crashes (it closes itself)!
> Can someone help? Thanks!
It's a Java bug that comes up with anything using AWT or Swing. The
same thing happens if you run graphical Java applications using them.

The "solution" is to wait for a new Java release to come out. In the
mean time, there is a patch to Xorg that "fixes" the problem by
allowing failed assertions there (see e.g.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sun-java5/+bug/86103). You
can add the patch (100-allow_sloppy_lock.diff) in a local recipe and
recompile, but that's really suboptimal. We might want to add that to
the recipe proper? It's a workaround, but it does affect a lot of
software.
-Michael