[Paraview-developers] GLXBadContext and other GLEW errors

[Ken Martin]

Maybe try nomachine instead of VNC. I use nomachine from linux to windows
all the time and it seems to work fine.

On Tue, Mar 6, 2018 at 11:44 AM, Cory Quammen <cory.quammen at kitware.com>
wrote:

> 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?
>>
>> -----------------
>> Jean/CSCS
>>
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