built-from-source arma crashes my X session

jessethemidget · Post by **jessethemidget** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 7:05 pm

So, being new to linux, I don't really know what I'm talking about but:

I built arma from source with:
ubuntu feisty,
make 3.81
gcc 4.1.2

only ./configure flag:
--prefix="$HOME/dev/arma/test"

two problems:
a) I don't know how to get it to use opengl instead of the alternative... is this bad?

b) when I exit (through the menu) it logs me off (goes to gdm login manager... I think this means it crashes X)

does anyone know what to do? I don't know how to check logs or anything yet...

wrtlprnft · Post by **wrtlprnft** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 8:15 pm

Do other opengl apps work? What happens if you don't play in windowed mode (use $HOME/dev/arma/test/bin/armagetronad -w)? What video card (and driver) do you use?

You can try looking at your X11 logs, usually in /var/log/Xorg.0.log.old, maybe there's a clue in there. As z-man usually says in such cases, armagetron should not be able to crash X11, no application can do that unless the opengl implementation is buggy.

Armagetronad always uses opengl if you build a client, dunno what a) is about…

jessethemidget · Post by **jessethemidget** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 2:03 am

thx, I'll try some stuff...
I think my old x log is too new (restarted a few times since I tried it) so I'll try again and come back.

yes, opengl works on other apps...
I know for sure:
blender
opengl visualizations on xmms.

video card: diamond viper v550 (basically rebranded nvidea tnt 1)
-correctly identified, using the riva tnt drivers...

I'll prolly post back in 10-20 minutes after I look around more,
thx.

jessethemidget · Post by **jessethemidget** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 2:40 am

ok, windowed works ok, doesn't crash X.

here's the backtrace at the end when it crashes in fullscreen:

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Backtrace:
0: /usr/X11R6/bin/X(xf86SigHandler+0x81) [0x80c5d91]
1: [0xffffe420]
2: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions//libGLcore.so(XMesaResizeBuffers+0x29) [0xb5a07d29]
3: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions//libGLcore.so [0xb5a04900]
4: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions//libglx.so [0xb7c3094a]
5: /usr/X11R6/bin/X(compPositionWindow+0x59) [0x80f6039]
6: /usr/X11R6/bin/X(ReparentWindow+0x1a7) [0x807a8a7]
7: /usr/X11R6/bin/X(ProcReparentWindow+0xd5) [0x808c055]
8: /usr/X11R6/bin/X [0x8142531]
9: /usr/X11R6/bin/X(Dispatch+0x19f) [0x808c61f]
10: /usr/X11R6/bin/X(main+0x495) [0x8074785]
11: /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xdc) [0xb7dbeebc]
12: /usr/X11R6/bin/X(FontFileCompleteXLFD+0x1e1) [0x8073ab1]

Fatal server error:
Caught signal 11.  Server aborting

that's ok, I can run in windowed mode.... just curious why...

Thanks for the help.

Website · Post by **Z-Man** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 8:17 am

Well, the crash comes from libGLcore.so and happens after Armagetron exited (there is no trace of Arma in the backtrace). Maybe we're doing something wrong. Does anyone know of a validating OpenGL implementation? Something like a valgrind for OpenGL?

jessethemidget · Post by **jessethemidget** » Sat Jun 30, 2007 8:53 pm

mm... that is kinda weird...

If you want me to post any more logs or anything just ask, I'm kinda curious what this is.

On a side-note, blender used to crash my X-session when I clicked with the center wheel on the mouse (not something you're supposed to do in blender anyway really...) maybe that'll be the same error?

I'll try that and take a look at the backtrace... could be an opengl bug with the way it handles input?