On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 4:02 AM, Steve Cliffe <[email protected]> wrote:

> Mark,
>
> I hit this problem when I finally got vlc 1.1 installed. After a bit of
> googling I stumbled upon an environment variable LIBXCB_ALLOW_SLOPPY_LOCK.
>
> I added the following to my .gnomerc and it fixed the problem:
>
> LIBXCB_ALLOW_SLOPPY_LOCK=1
> export LIBXCB_ALLOW_SLOPPY_LOCK
>
> I'm not sure what the underlying problem is but this is a workaround.
>


Hi,

I did not notice this problem when I tested vlc 1.1.0 on Rhel5,
but now I looked at my .cshrc and, indeed, I have:

 # fix libxcb lock
setenv LIBXCB_ALLOW_SLOPPY_LOCK 1

I should have put this years ago when this problem first hit Fedora,
and forgot about it ...



-- 
Paulo Roma Cavalcanti
LCG - UFRJ
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