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0011865ParaViewBugpublic2011-02-15 17:152016-08-12 09:58
Orion Poplawski 
Kitware Robot 
normalminoralways
closedmoved 
Development 
 
0011865: Cannot create GLX context. Aborting.
When run over ssh without any glx capability, paraview aborts. It this is expected behavior, it should not call abort() which generates a core dump, but instead simply exit. If it should be able to run without a glx context this also a bug.

$ paraview
ERROR: In /builddir/build/BUILD/ParaView-3.10.0-RC1/VTK/Rendering/vtkXOpenGLRenderWindow.cxx, line 404
vtkXOpenGLRenderWindow (0x2571fc0): Could not find a decent visual

ERROR: In /builddir/build/BUILD/ParaView-3.10.0-RC1/VTK/Rendering/vtkXOpenGLRenderWindow.cxx, line 404
vtkXOpenGLRenderWindow (0x2571fc0): Could not find a decent visual

X Error: BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation) 2
  Extension: 136 (Uknown extension)
  Minor opcode: 3 (Unknown request)
  Resource id: 0x21
ERROR: In /builddir/build/BUILD/ParaView-3.10.0-RC1/VTK/Rendering/vtkXOpenGLRenderWindow.cxx, line 631
vtkXOpenGLRenderWindow (0x2571fc0): Cannot create GLX context. Aborting.

$ glxinfo
name of display: localhost:12.0
Error: couldn't find RGB GLX visual or fbconfig

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Issue History
2011-02-15 17:15Orion PoplawskiNew Issue
2016-08-12 09:58Kitware RobotNote Added: 0037927
2016-08-12 09:58Kitware RobotStatusbacklog => closed
2016-08-12 09:58Kitware RobotResolutionopen => moved
2016-08-12 09:58Kitware RobotAssigned To => Kitware Robot

Notes
(0037927)
Kitware Robot   
2016-08-12 09:58   
Resolving issue as `moved`.

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