Please update ebuild to version 0.3.7.3. See http://recordmydesktop.cvs.sourceforge.net/recordmydesktop/recordmydesktop/ChangeLog?revision=1.35&view=markup With previous version, I had the following output each time: Initial recording window is set to: X:5 Y:57 Width:1270 Height:931 Adjusted recording window is set to: X:0 Y:50 Width:1280 Height:944 Your window manager appears to be Metacity Initializing... Capturing! Locking assertion failure. Backtrace: #0 /usr/lib/libxcb-xlib.so.0 [0x2ab9adfbc9ec] #1 /usr/lib/libxcb-xlib.so.0(xcb_xlib_unlock+0x24) [0x2ab9adfbcaf4] #2 /usr/lib/libX11.so.6 [0x2ab9ad21eda0] #3 /usr/lib/libX11.so.6(XNextEvent+0x62) [0x2ab9ad2078f2] #4 recordmydesktop [0x40a6e5] #5 /lib/libpthread.so.0 [0x2ab9ac167067] #6 /lib/libc.so.6(clone+0x6d) [0x2ab9ada31bed] #7 /lib/libc.so.6(clone+0x6d) [0x2ab9ada31bed] #8 /lib/libc.so.6(clone+0x6d) [0x2ab9ada31bed] #9 /lib/libc.so.6(clone+0x6d) [0x2ab9ada31bed] #10 /lib/libc.so.6(clone+0x6d) [0x2ab9ada31bed] #11 /lib/libc.so.6(clone+0x6d) [0x2ab9ada31bed] #12 /lib/libc.so.6(clone+0x6d) [0x2ab9ada31bed] #13 /lib/libc.so.6(clone+0x6d) [0x2ab9ada31bed] #14 /lib/libc.so.6(clone+0x6d) [0x2ab9ada31bed] #15 /lib/libc.so.6(clone+0x6d) [0x2ab9ada31bed] #16 /lib/libc.so.6(clone+0x6d) [0x2ab9ada31bed] #17 /lib/libc.so.6(clone+0x6d) [0x2ab9ada31bed] #18 /lib/libc.so.6(clone+0x6d) [0x2ab9ada31bed] #19 /lib/libc.so.6(clone+0x6d) [0x2ab9ada31bed] recordmydesktop: xcb_xlib.c:82: xcb_xlib_unlock: Assertion `c->xlib.lock' failed.
*recordmydesktop-0.3.7.3 (20 Feb 2008) 20 Feb 2008; Christian Faulhammer <opfer@gentoo.org> -recordmydesktop-0.3.7.1.ebuild, -recordmydesktop-0.3.7.2.ebuild, +recordmydesktop-0.3.7.3.ebuild: version bump and clean up; only a crash issue with xcb seems Christian forgot to close this bug ;)