[vtk-developers] OffScreenRendering crash on CircleCI (Mac OSX)

[Sean McBride]

On Wed, 5 Apr 2017 20:57:55 +0000, Sankhesh Jhaveri said:

>We’re running into a strange crash on mac containers (OSX 10.11.6) created
>by CircleCI with VTK (OpenGL backend).
>
>VTK compiles fine and seems to work with OffScreenRenderingOff but crashes
>at the first OpenGL call with OffScreenRenderingOn(). Unfortunately, I
>can’t reproduce this on my mac machine and haven’t been able to make
>headway within the half hour that CircleCI provides.
>
>Again, this is the OpenGL backend. No crashes with the OpenGL2 backend.
>If anyone has come across this or has an idea how to debug/reproduce/fix
>this, kindly drop me a hint.

Sankhesh,

You don't give enough information for anyone to help you.  If you can't reproduce, what can any of us say if we don't even have your code?  :)  How about at least a backtrace of the crash, that might be something someone recognises.

Cheers,

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