[vtkusers] X crashes on exit when using Mesa

Andy Cedilnik andy.cedilnik at kitware.com
Mon Sep 9 07:33:04 EDT 2002


What version of NVidia drivers you have? There were some old versions
that crashed X server in certain situations.

			Andy

On Sat, 2002-09-07 at 11:01, Tarjei Knapstad wrote:
> I'm developing on a linux machine with an NVidia GF2 graphics card and
> NVidias linux drivers, and all my Vtk stuff works just fine and dandy
> here.
> 
> Just recently though, I tried running my application on an older laptop
> which only has Mesa GL libraries. The application ran just fine up until
> the pointed when I tried to exit it. X bombed out with an error log that
> just stated "Fatal server error".
> 
> I tried debugging the app on the laptop, and the crash occurs somewhere
> in exit() when cleaning up static objects etc.
> 
> Is there some important cleanup that I may have forgot? Has anyone elese
> ever stumbled across this? The Mesa version I'm using is 3.4.2, but
> upgrading to 4.0.5 didn't help. XFree is version 4.1.





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