Re: autopkgtest of silx on armhf

[Drew Parsons <dparsons@emerall.com>]

On 2025-03-03 10:31, PICCA Frederic-Emmanuel wrote:
> Hello, I am trying to make silx releasable for trixie, but I have this 
> error message
>
> https://ci.debian.net/packages/s/silx/testing/armel/58313353/
>
>
> 921s 
> /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/silx/gui/plot/test/test_plotwidget.py:149: 
> AssertionError
> 921s ----------------------------- Captured stderr call 
> -----------------------------
> 921s QEGLPlatformContext: Failed to create context: 3009
> 921s QOpenGLWidget: Failed to create context
> 921s QEGLPlatformContext: Failed to create context: 3009
> 921s QOpenGLWidget: Failed to create context
> 921s QEGLPlatformContext: Failed to create context: 3009
> 921s QOpenGLWidget: Failed to create context
> 921s QEGLPlatformContext: Failed to create context: 3009
> 921s QOpenGLWidget: Failed to create context
> 921s QEGLPlatformContext: Failed to create context: 3009
> 921s QOpenGLWidget: Failed to create context
>
> It seems that the arm 32bit has difficulties with the EGL and OpenGL 
> context creation.
>
> do you know how to debug this and if something should be done in order 
> to avoid this issue.
>
> a dedicated environment variable to set with a special values  etc...

There are some known issues around EGL on 32-bit arm.
cf. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=798408

avogadrolibs for instance works around it by setting cmake 
-DUSE_QT_OPENGL=OFF

Drew