[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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