[Paraview] libGL error: failed to load driver: swrast

[Ken Martin]

For software rasterization in Mesa I think llvmpipe is the safer bet. If I
recall correctly swrast is an old legacy rasterizer and does not support
the more modern OpenGL functions in Mesa.

Ken

On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 10:49 AM, Rob Nagler <paraview-vxtjp at q33.us> wrote:

> I'm trying to install and run ParaViewWeb. I've tried: Fedora 21, Debian
> Jessie, & Ubuntu 14.0.4 and ParaView 4.1 (pvw-setup, stock pkgs, bin/src
> download) and 5.0 on each. None work, and they fail for different reasons.
> Here's one failure on Ubuntu 14.0.4 with
> ParaView-5.0.0-Qt4-OpenGL2-MPI-Linux-64bit.tar.gz:
>
> $ ./bin/pvpython
> lib/paraview-5.0/site-packages/paraview/web/pv_web_visualizer.py --content
> ./share/paraview-5.0/www --data-dir ~/tmp --port 8080
> 2016-03-20 15:28:46+0000 [-] Log opened.
> libGL error: failed to load driver: swrast
> X Error of failed request:  GLXBadFBConfig
>   Major opcode of failed request:  150 (GLX)
>   Minor opcode of failed request:  34 ()
>   Serial number of failed request:  29
>
> The swrast driver seems to be there:
>
> $ find /usr -name \*swrast\*
> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/swrast_dri.so
> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gallium-pipe/pipe_swrast.so
>
> Running strace shows that it does load
> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/swrast_dri.so and fails later with this, I
> think:
>
> close(4)                                = 0
> open("/home/vagrant/.drirc", O_RDONLY)  = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
> directory)
> munmap(0x7f0439de2000, 5648480)         = 0
> write(2, "libGL error: ", 13libGL error: )           = 13
> write(2, "failed to load driver: swrast\n", 30failed to load driver: swrast
>
> More of the strace found here: http://pastebin.com/krQ5ZR4J
>
> Even if I create ~/.drirc it still gets the same error without any clear
> reason why.
>
> Thanks,
> Rob
>
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