F8 upgrade: azureus broken

[David Timms]

Colin Brace wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I just upgraded my F7 box to F8 via the dvd. So far, so good.
> 
> Alas, azureus won't start:
> 
> DEBUG::Fri Nov 09 21:20:23 CET 2007::
> com.aelitis.azureus.core.impl.AzureusCoreImpl$8::runSupport::512:
>   java.lang.NullPointerException
>         at org.gudy.azureus2.ui.swt.updater2.SWTUpdateChecker.initialize(
> SWTUpdateChecker.java:67)
>         at org.gudy.azureus2.ui.swt.mainwindow.Initializer$4.started(
> Initializer.java:258)
>         at com.aelitis.azureus.core.impl.AzureusCoreImpl$8.runSupport(
> AzureusCoreImpl.java:508)
>         at org.gudy.azureus2.core3.util.AEThread.run(AEThread.java:69)
> 
> java: xcb_xlib.c:50: xcb_xlib_unlock: Assertion `c->xlib.lock' failed.
> /usr/bin/azureus: line 18:  7509 Aborted
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/eclipse:/usr/lib CLASSPATH=/usr/lib/eclipse/swt-
> gtk-3.3.jar:`build-classpath bcprov jakarta-commons-cli log4j gtk2.8
> glib0.2`:/usr/share/azureus/Azureus2.jar java -
> Dgnu.gcj.runtime.VMClassLoader.library_control=never -
> Dazureus.install.path=$APPDIR org.gudy.azureus2.ui.swt.Main "$@"
> 
> [1]+  Exit 134                azureus
> 
> Versions installed:
> 
> $ rpm -q azureus
> azureus-2.5.0.4-3.fc8
> 
> $ rpm -q jre
> jre-1.6.0_03-fcs
Are you really using the sun java ?
$ java -version
# alternatives --display java

Any change with gcj or icedtea ?

> Any ideas what is going wong?
That might be known bug:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=321581

DaveT.