[MINC-users] freeglut fatal error in remote X sessions

[Alex Zijdenbos]

Hi Stephen,

I may have one tip: I had the same issue, and managed to fix it (somewhat) by

   apt-get install nvidia-glx-185
   (reboot)

(obviously that only makes sense on a machine with an nvidia card).
After this I am able to run register and Display through NX - with one
caveat: they will still segfault when quitting them 'nicely'. So I've
just gotten used to use Ctrl-C when done running register and Display
in an NX session :)

It might work for you too.

-- Alex

On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 11:59 PM, Andrew Janke <a.janke at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Stephen,
>
>> I have installed the BIC software via the Ubuntu Lucid Lynx packages that
>> were released yesterday.  I have been testing the Display program, which
>> appears to run properly while working on the system locally, however if
>> connected to the system via a remote X session, using NX or VNC, the program
>> fails with the following error:
>
> I'm afraid you might be on your own with this one. :(  Register and
> Display make use of a few undocumented features of GLUT from back in
> the day it was written. I have already patched a few bugs related to
> this in any case. The problem is that I can't reproduce the issue you
> are having here with two Ubuntu Karmic/Lynx machines so I can't offer
> any help.
>
> No doubt it is related to glut/freeglut but just where I can't say.
>
>
> good luck.
>
>
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