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Re: Bug#357439: amaya does not start--The program 'amaya' received an X Window System error.



On Die, 2006-04-25 at 23:24 +0100, Regis Boudin wrote: 
> Ok, si this bug is now starting to turn me crazy.
> 
> All running tests point to a problem with Mesa :
> -crash with Mesa in software mode

You mean the X error from the original report? Did you find out which
extension generates it using

xdpyinfo -queryExt|grep 144

?

> -no crash with Mesa using the ATI DRI, but weird display of the web
> pages

Seen that. Most likely a Mesa (driver) issue indeed.

> -no crash with the nvidia proprietary driver, display is happy.
> 
> When I tried using gdb to get a backtrace(attached), all I got was a
> long list of calls involving wxWidgets, GTK, but not Mesa.

X is asynchronous, so the client receives the error long after it sent
out the request causing it. When this happens, GTK should tell you how
to make it use a synchronous X connection.


> CCing the XSF in case someone has an idea, 

A Mesa list might have been even better? :)


> > > > OpenGL Status:
> > > >   Software Mode = Hard
> > > >   VENDOR : Tungsten Graphics, Inc.
> > > >   VERSION : 1.2 Mesa 6.4.1
> > > >   RENDERER : Mesa DRI Radeon 20050528 AGP 4x x86/MMX+/3DNow!+/SSE NO-TCL
> > > >   GLU Version : 1.3
> > > >   Aux buffers count 0
> > > >   Acumm rgba : 0 0 0 0
> > > > *** Amaya: Irrecoverable error ***Segmentation fault

Can you get a backtrace for this?


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