[Paraview] GLXBadContext error when saving to png file

[Ondrej Certik]

Hi,

when I try to save the image from paraview, I always get a
GLXBadContext X error. This also occurs when saving from Python, so
here
is a simple script to reproduce the problem:

$ cat t.py
from paraview import servermanager as sm
sm.Connect()
view = sm.CreateRenderView()
view.StillRender()
view.WriteImage("image.png", "vtkPNGWriter", 1)
$ python2.5 t.py
X Error of failed request:  GLXBadContext
  Major opcode of failed request:  159 (GLX)
  Minor opcode of failed request:  5 (X_GLXMakeCurrent)
  Serial number of failed request:  24
  Current serial number in output stream:  24


This happens both with the official binary, and when built from
source. I use Debian, with Intel 945GM graphic card.

Otherwise everything works fine. We are in the process of creating a
Debian package for paraview and getting it into Debian (and Ubuntu),
we already managed to built it with MPI and Python. If you use Debian,
you can use it from:

svn://svn.debian.org/svn/pkg-scicomp/paraview/

(it will take at least a month or more before it gets into Debian unstable).

Ondrej