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

["Regis Boudin" <regis@boudin.name>]

Michel Dänzer said:
>> I know. The previously attached backtrace was obtained with
>> libgl1-mesa-swx11,
>> running amaya with the --sync parameter, so there might be a problem
>> there
>> too. Doing the same with libgl1-mesa-glx and DRI disabled, I get the
>> attached one. Could wxWidgets be doing something bad ?
>
> Possibly; in particular in the previous backtrace, it does look like
> either wx or GTK is the culprit. In this case, it looks like it could be
> wx and/or libGL and/or the X server.

Follow-up on this bug.
Upstream proposes packages on its website, built on Sarge. It is linked
statically against local versions of Mesa and wxWidgets, which are
included in the tarball and built before actually compiling the Amaya
binary itself.
The important detail, I guess, is that the provided Mesa is branded as
being 6.2.1.

My various tests have been done on an up-to-date unstable.
Using the static wxWidgets and shared Mesa leads to the gdk error.
Using the static wxWidgets and static Mesa works. However, it crashes with
the same gdk error if the Composite extension is enabled.

I'm not sure if this points more towards a problem with Mesa or X, but I
feel all this is becoming quite complicated.

Regis
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