I've been running Einstein@Home happily on Fedora 6 and 7. Ever since I've upgraded to Fedora 8 I can't get the manager to run. I always get:

> ./run_manager
boincmgr: xcb_xlib.c:41: xcb_xlib_lock: Assertion `!c->xlib.lock' failed.
Aborted

Deleting and resinstalling hasn't cleared the problem. Does anyone have any idea what is wrong? What can I do to get it running again? All help appreciated.

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The Search here really works, you know? ;-)

Try this.

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Incidentally, yesterday openSUSE patched the xlib library to resolve the problem via the openSUSE updater, I'm sure the other distributions will be doing so as well. I haven't tried the update yet.

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The Search here really works, you know? ;-)

Try this.

Sad to say, that didn't have any effect that I could tell.

I'm happy to give machine cycles to BOINC when the s/w works on my machine again.

I'll keep updating my Fedora and see if anything changes.

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In the other case... is this BOINC 5.10.28 by chance?
If so, then you are almost bound to only use the command line version.
From here:

Howdy Folks,

I have released a newer Linux client for testing. Please note, we have had a policy change, we will be releasing a command line compatible with as many Linux distro’s as possible package, and a Ubuntu 7.10 specific package with a GTK2 based GUI. I would be interested to know if the Ubuntu release will work with any other distros.

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I haven't tried the update yet.

I rebooted my machine just now to check if the new xlib patch works, and I'm glad to report that it has fixed the problem.

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