Comment 83 for bug 905686

I don't know if this is at all relevant, but I also got the error message:

"xcb_io.c:528: _XAllocID: Assertion `ret != inval_id' failed" after rebuilding and running an OPEN Windows (xview) application as a 32-bit executable on a CentoS 6.4 x86_64 architecture. There is apparently no native 64-bit xview - presumably because the data structures inherent in the package assume 4 bytes for address pointers, and too much trouble to re-engineer, hence the 32-bit build and the error here.

The problem was resolved here by explicitly linking to the dynamic run time library:

"/usr/lib/libX11-xcb.so.1".

The linker does not require the libX11-xcb.so.1 to be specified, but it clearly defaults to the 64-bit /usr/lib64/libX11-xcb.so.1 version. For users where they only have a 32 bit binary xview application, there is probably some Linux command to reset the default libX11-xcb.so.1 dynamic library path.

Frankly I don't know much at all about the inner workings of Linux, but this post may be hepful to anyone else who is having similar problems. If irrelevant, please ignore.