[Paraview-developers] GLXBadContext and other GLEW errors

[Cory Quammen]

Ken,

Do you have any ideas? Jean is having problems with just
vtkXOpenGLRenderWindow, but the Qt render window seems to be happy.

Thanks,
Cory

On Mon, Mar 5, 2018 at 8:00 AM, Favre Jean <jfavre at cscs.ch> wrote:

> Dear Developers
>
> I am testing the Release candidate 5.5 on compute nodes, using a VNC
> desktop.
>
> ParaView is compiled with the native NVIDIA driver , the default
> VTK_USE_X=ON, and VTK_USE_SYSTEM_GLEW=OFF
>
> ./bin/paraview works fine and the Help reports the correct NVIDIA driver.
>
> I have problems with
>
> ./bin/vtkProbeOpenGLVersion which crashes with message:
>
> X Error of failed request:  GLXBadContext
>   Major opcode of failed request:  153 (GLX)
>   Minor opcode of failed request:  26 (X_GLXMakeContextCurrent)
>
> and I have other python code which when run with
>
> ./bin/vtkpython crash on errors
>
> vtkXOpenGLRenderWindow (0x160e7b0): GLEW could not be initialized.
>
> So, based on the fact that my ./bin/paraview is able to run and go past
> the hurdles of GLEW and other GLX issues, I feel like it also ought to be
> possible to run vtkProbeGLVersion without crashing. And that might fix my
> other GLW issue as well.
>
> Any hints?
>
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> Jean/CSCS
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Cory Quammen
Staff R&D Engineer
Kitware, Inc.
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