F8 and BOINC

[Gilboa Davara]

On Sat, 2007-12-08 at 16:35 -0500, Michael Klinosky wrote:
> I installed F8 (fresh) on one of my machines (not my primary box!), and 
> BOINC seems to have some issues now.
> 
> After I cleaned up the install to my prefs, I downloaded the latest & 
> greatest BOINC software (5.10.21). When I tried to run the manager, I 
> got "Assertion `!c->xlib.lock' failed." A search turned up some issues 
> with F8 - here is one relevant to mine:
> http://staff.science.uva.nl/~hveerten/linux.html
> 
> Well, I can't use that version. So I tried the former version (I left 
> /home intact). However, its gui freezes as soon as it appears. If 
> there's another window over it, and I bring it to the front, it's not 
> updated. And, I have to force quit.
> 
> A terminal works, as does Firefox.
> 
> What's going on?
> 

Known issue. [1]
Seems the BOINC (like java) is incompatible with new(er) X.org releases.

- Gilboa
[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=301691