Comment 154 for bug 185311

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cparg (cparg) wrote : Re: [Bug 185311] Re: hardy, locking assertion failure, xorg/libsdl

I totally agree. I can not run my main Application to create IC-Layouts
and Schematics...
LTS Hardy is therefor not a platform for such professional
applications.. :-( ... what a pitty...

Chris

Alex Demko wrote:
> Dang, is compiz the only major application that needs both X11 and xcb? Because if it is, wouldn't it make more sense to link compiz against "libX11-xcb.so" and leave "libX11.so" be the non-xcb, stock/old/stable/working libX11?
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> I suggest this, as I hope you guys rethink the magnatude of the wontfix
> status. Hardy essentially doesn't work out of the box with all Java
> applications and countless other closed & open, current & old
> applications. I think this is especially important as Hardy is supposed
> to be a LTS/stable release, that one can count on for larger, more long
> term deployments (such as one I'm trying to do, but this bug is holding
> up).
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> Thanks for your consideration.
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