On Sun, 2010-07-18 at 07:09 -0300, Paulo Cavalcanti wrote: > On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 4:02 AM, Steve Cliffe <[email protected]> > wrote: > 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.
> 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 ... Hm, can this be set at build time? If yes, we should ship a package that works out of the box. Otherwise maybe the EL5 package needs a wrapper like (untested): #! /bin/sh export LIBXCB_ALLOW_SLOPPY_LOCK=1 exec /path/to/real/vlc "@$" What do you think? -- http://thimm.gr/ - http://ATrpms.net/
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