[Paraview] Help! Paraview keeps crashing out with X Error on Mac Powerbook G4

J.Kim Welford kwelford at esd.mun.ca
Thu Apr 20 20:41:46 EDT 2006


Hi Mike,

Thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately even the older binaries  
(2.2.1) give me the same crash. Looks like I might be out of luck.

Thanks anyway,
KIM...

On 20-Apr-06, at 7:58 PM, Mike Jackson wrote:

> KIM,
>   If you are on a PPC system, the you should be able to grab the  
> prebuilt binaries from Kitware's site http://www.paraview.org/files/ 
> v2.2/  or http://www.paraview.org/files/v2.4/ and run. From my last  
> trials trying to get it to run under OS X 10.4.x then only solution  
> that I came up with was running a binary that was built with  
> PANTHER ( OS X 10.3.9 ) using GCC 3.3. That was the only version  
> that I could get to run under OS X 10.4 PPC.
>    Now that I have an Intel OS X machine I am completely out of  
> luck running Paraview. From the looks of things there is an issue  
> with how the OpenGL Context is being created. It is going to take  
> one of the Kitware Engineers to debug it to figure out what exactly  
> is going on.
>    Unfortunately, that is not at the top of the Priority list for  
> Kitware.
>
> Mike Jackson
>
>
> On Apr 20, 2006, at 4:12 PM, J. Kim Welford wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Seems I'm not the only one having Mac-related Paraview issues! I'm  
>> trying to compile things on a non-Intel Powerbook G4 running  
>> 10.4.6 though.
>>
>> Based on some of the advice that I received, I compiled  
>> paraview-2.2.1 but I get the same problem as before with it  
>> crashing out with:
>>
>> X Error of failed request:  BadValue (integer parameter out of range
>>  for operation)
>>  Major opcode of failed request:  150 (GLX)
>>  Minor opcode of failed request:  3 (X_GLXCreateContext)
>>  Value in failed request:  0x22
>>  Serial number of failed request:  1122
>>  Current serial number in output stream:  1123
>>
>> Not that I know anything about these things but could it just be  
>> that my video card is not hefty enough?
>>
>> All is not lost though as my Linux workstation is able to run the  
>> binaries happily so I'm not completely Paraview-less. I just can't  
>> lug it around with me as I could if it was on my laptop...
>>
>> Thanks!
>> KIM...
>>
>> On 20-Apr-06, at 2:13 PM, Joe Koski wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> on 4/20/06 10:17 AM, mike jackson at imikejackson at gmail.com wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 4/20/06, Joe Koski <jkoski11 at comcast.net> wrote:
>>>>> on 4/20/06 2:41 AM, Andreas Bollermann at  
>>>>> andreas.bollermann at rwth-aachen.de
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> on my Powerbook G4, OS X 10.4.6, the binaries from the website  
>>>>>> work, but
>>>>>> the last version is very unstable. Anyone still having 2.4.2  
>>>>>> binaries?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The recent stable code doesn't compile on my machine, the CVS  
>>>>>> code
>>>>>> builds, but last time I tried it crashed shortly after startup.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>> Andreas
>>>>>
>>>>> Andreas,
>>>>>
>>>>> I have not had any problems with paraview-2.4.3 on my G5 with  
>>>>> OS X 10.3.9.
>>>>> Currently, there are also reported build problems for PowerPC  
>>>>> Macs with OS X
>>>>> 10.4.6 with the open source products octave and R. Apparently,  
>>>>> the same
>>>>> builds work without problems on the new Intel Macs with 10.4.6.  
>>>>> I monitor
>>>>> the Apple scitech list, and, while the problems are being  
>>>>> reported, there is
>>>>> no word from Apple about the existence of the problem or if it  
>>>>> will be fixed
>>>>> soon. I suspect that they are swamped supporting the new Intel  
>>>>> platform.
>>>>>
>>>>> Maybe we should ask for the paraview website to add the the  
>>>>> 2.4.2 version
>>>>> until the problem is cleared.
>>>>>
>>>>> Joe
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Mike Jackson schrieb:
>>>>>>>    Yep, I have the same problem. I am running OS X 10.4.6  
>>>>>>> Intel and OS X
>>>>>>> 10.4.6 PPC. Both crash out of X in about that same spot. I at  
>>>>>>> least used
>>>>>>> to be able to run the binaries from Paraview.org, but not any  
>>>>>>> more.
>>>>>>>    Trying to build on OS X 10.4.x will not work either. It will
>>>>>>> successfully compile, but not work. I tried compiling with  
>>>>>>> GCC 4 and GCC
>>>>>>> 3. I tried running PPC binaries on Intel hardware hoping that  
>>>>>>> Rosetta
>>>>>>> would kick in.. Nothing I have tried works.
>>>>>>>    The only know working solution is Paraview 2.2.1 running  
>>>>>>> on OS X
>>>>>>> 10.3.9. That was the last time I had anything working on Mac  
>>>>>>> Hardware.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Good luck.
>>>>>>> Mike Jackson
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Apr 19, 2006, at 1:55 PM, J. Kim Welford wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> My problem is similar to one posted last month in the  
>>>>>>>> archives but I
>>>>>>>> can't work out how they came to a solution.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> After "apparently" managing to successfully compile the  
>>>>>>>> code, I ran it
>>>>>>>> and was temporarily pleased to see Paraview's colourful  
>>>>>>>> opening screen
>>>>>>>> only to have it crash out with the following message:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> X Error of failed request:  BadValue (integer parameter out  
>>>>>>>> of range
>>>>>>>> for operation)
>>>>>>>>   Major opcode of failed request:  150 (GLX)
>>>>>>>>   Minor opcode of failed request:  3 (X_GLXCreateContext)
>>>>>>>>   Value in failed request:  0x22
>>>>>>>>   Serial number of failed request:  1122
>>>>>>>>   Current serial number in output stream:  1123
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> The same thing occurred when I downloaded and ran the Mac  
>>>>>>>> binaries.
>>>>>>>> I've been running everything from an x-terminal and my /usr/ 
>>>>>>>> X11R6/lib
>>>>>>>> directory contains all the libGL and libGLU libraries so I  
>>>>>>>> have no
>>>>>>>> idea what it's complaining about.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Has anyone else come across this problem?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Thanks!
>>>>>>>> KIM...
>>>>
>>>> I can report that Paraview version 2.4.3 (Current Stable  
>>>> Version) does
>>>> NOT work on OS X 10.4.6 for Intel. I have a MacBook Pro running  
>>>> 10.4.6
>>>> and while Paraview will compile, it will not run. The splash screen
>>>> shows up but then crashes when OpenGL is called.
>>>>
>>>> Who is reporting that Paraview _is_ working with Intel hardware? I
>>>> would like to find out how they are building it and getting it to
>>>> work.
>>>>
>>>> Are you saying that paraview 2.4.2 does compile and build on OS X
>>>> 10.4.6 for Intel? Then it should be a matter of looking for that  
>>>> tag
>>>> in CVS and doing a Check out and Build.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Mike Jackson
>>>> imikejackson _at_ gee-mail dot com
>>>
>>> Mike,
>>>
>>> No, I am reporting that octave and R work on Intel Macs with OS X  
>>> 10.4.6,
>>> but not on PowerPC Macs with the same OS. Paraview is a different  
>>> story. The
>>> octave and R problems with the PowerPC Macs are apparently  
>>> related to
>>> loading .dylibs.
>>>
>>> I installed my Mac paraview from the Kitware download binaries,  
>>> and have not
>>> attempted a build. As I said, the download has worked well so far.
>>>
>>> Joe
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>
>
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