[Gmsh] gmsh problem (bug?)
Christophe Geuzaine
c.geuzaine at ulg.ac.be
Mon Jan 17 19:10:00 CET 2005
Linus Löfström wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I tried to run the binary version for Linux and it started and displayed
> some windows but then immediately crashed. I run a 2.6.9 kernel and have
> glibc 2.3.4.20040808-r1.
>
> The .gmsh-errors file says:
> Info : -------------------------------------------------------
> Info : Gmsh version : 1.58.0
> Info : Build OS : Linux 2.4.18-3
> Info : Build options : GSL TRIANGLE NETGEN JPEG PNG ZLIB MATHEVAL
> Info : Build date : Sat Jan 1 13:48:26 PST 2005
> Info : Build host : localhost.localdomain
> Info : Packager : geuzaine
> Info : Home directory : /home/linus/
> Info : Launch date : Mon Jan 17 17:33:44 2005
> Info : Command line : ./gmsh
> Info : -------------------------------------------------------
> Fatal : Segmentation violation (invalid memory reference)
> : ------------------------------------------------------
> : You have discovered a bug in Gmsh! You may report it
> : by e-mail (together with any helpful data permitting to
> : reproduce it) to <gmsh at geuz.org>
> Info : Writing log file '/home/linus/.gmsh-errors'
>
> Also, the program outputs
> Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
> Insufficient GL support
> Aborted
>
> Does this mean I have to have OpenGL support to run gmsh?
In interactive mode, yes. (You should still be able to use it in batch
mode, e.g., "gmsh file.geo -3", without OpenGL.)
> Is this why it crashed?
Yes, FLTK does not like it when it can not initialize the OpenGL window...
Christophe
>
> Thanks for your time and let me know if I can provide better info in some
> way.
>
> Linus Löfström, student at the Royal Institute of Science, Stockholm
>
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Christophe Geuzaine
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