Archive for November, 2007

Zend Studio: fixing ‘Assertion `c->xlib.lock’ failed’ bug

Friday, November 16, 2007

Once I’ve installed Fedora 8 and restored backup copy of my Zend Studio 5.5, I was stunned to see following error output while trying to run it:

java: xcb_xlib.c:52: xcb_xlib_unlock: Assertion `c->xlib.lock' failed.
Aborted

No worries tough. Google is always your friend, so solution came up pretty quickly. :) (more…)

Fedora 8 on Dell Latitude D620 and Inspiron 640m

Friday, November 16, 2007

Just a few days before official Fedora 8 release, I’ve got chance to play around with latest Ubuntu 7.10 LiveCD. I really liked it, pretty much everything worked well out of the box, interface was nice and had some interesting features which I miss in Fedora. For the very first time in my ‘career’ as a Linux-user I was seriously tempted to install permanently different distro. But few days later Fedora 8 was released. First thing to test was F8 LiveCD, as downloading DVD image took longer while. And again, just like with Ubuntu, first boot impression was great! Everything worked straight away, nice look-and-feel, and generally dirty thoughts about cheating beloved Fedora with Gutsy Gibbon went far far away in a matter of seconds. ;) (more…)