[lsb-discuss] all XPROTO tests fail - any advice, please?

[Wichmann, Mats D]

>Jiri Dluhos wrote:
>> Hello everyone,
>> 
>> I have found an interesting phenomenon - when running the 
>vsw4 test suite on 
>> an alpha version of our openSuSE system, *all* XPROTO-based 
>tests fail with 
>> messages like this:
>> 
>> 12:29:30  Execute /tset/XPROTO/allcclr/allcclr
>> allcclr: xcb_io.c:285: _XAllocID: Assertion `!(dpy->flags & 
>(1L << 3))' 
>> failed.
>
>xcb_io.c points to xcb, the new communications layer underlying libX11
>in recent libX11 releases, which adds in a lot more run-time 
>checks/asserts.
>To find out what is triggering this, I'd ask the xcb developers on
>xcb at lists.freedesktop.org.


I wouldn't be surprised if part of the answer comes
back as "don't do that" in regards to the ancient
test suite's behaviors; we are indeed trying to stamp
out the use of vsw4 but not quite there yet.