Re: assertion "!c->xlib.lock" failed

["Yaakov (Cygwin/X)" <yselkowitz at users dot sourceforge dot net>]

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Rob Gillen wrote:
> I didn't find any posts on the Cygwin mailing lists regarding this
> issue, so I'm not sure if anyone else has dealt with it.  I've had
> this issue for a while now (likely after an X upgrade) where Nedit
> would exit completely with an assert after trying to CTRL-V paste into
> it:
> 
>     assertion "!c->xlib.lock" failed: file
> "/usr/src/ports/xorg/libxcb/libxcb-1.1-2/src/libxcb-1.1/src/xcb_xlib.c",
> line 73
>     Aborted (core dumped)
> 
> It's possible that I might have some weird configuration that's
> causing the problem, but I did see that the same assert occurs with
> graphical Java apps on a lot of newer Linux distributions that utilize
> recent versions of xcb.  The solution for the Linux problems, which is
> just an environment setting appears to work just as well with
> Cygwin-X:
> 
>     export LIBXCB_ALLOW_SLOPPY_LOCK=1

I don't know about your configuration, but you are correct that this
does occur in some cases on other platforms, and this is the correct
solution.

> If others are having the same issue, it might be useful to add it to
> the Cygwin-X FAQ.  That was the first place that I looked.

Good idea, even though it's not Cygwin specific, I'm not sure that it's
clearly documented anywhere else.


Yaakov
Cygwin/X
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