[Mesa-users] Glxgears Crashes in VMware

[Brian Paul]

When you get to the "(gdb)" prompt, type "run" and press <enter>.

If you get a crash, type "where" and post the output in a follow-up message.

-Brian

On 10/27/2016 05:36 PM, Sam M wrote:
> *I've ran the "gdb glxgears" command on the local machine:*
>
>
> GNU gdb (GDB) Red Hat Enterprise Linux (7.2-90.el6)
> Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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> and "show warranty" for details.
> This GDB was configured as "x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu".
> For bug reporting instructions, please see:
> <http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/bugs/>...
> Reading symbols from /usr/bin/glxgears...(no debugging symbols
> found)...done.
> Missing separate debuginfos, use: debuginfo-install
> glx-utils-11.0.7-4.el6.x86_64
>
> *I've ran the "gdb glxgears" command on the server:*
>
>
> GNU gdb (GDB) CentOS (7.0.1-45.el5.centos)
> Copyright (C) 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later
> <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
> There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.  Type "show copying"
> and "show warranty" for details.
> This GDB was configured as "x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu".
> For bug reporting instructions, please see:
> <http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/bugs/>...
> Reading symbols from /usr/bin/glxgears...(no debugging symbols
> found)...done.
>
>
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> *From:* mesa-users <mesa-users-bounces at lists.freedesktop.org> on behalf
> of Sam M <sam_h00 at hotmail.com>
> *Sent:* October 27, 2016 5:07:44 PM
> *To:* Brian Paul
> *Cc:* mesa-users at lists.freedesktop.org
> *Subject:* Re: [Mesa-users] Glxgears Crashes in VMware
>
> How would I use the "gdb" command? Can you give me an example.
>
>
> On Oct 27, 2016 4:38 PM, Brian Paul <brianp at vmware.com> wrote:
>
>     Can you try running with gdb to get some information about the crash?
>
>     -Brian
>
>     On 10/27/2016 01:12 PM, Sam M wrote:
>      > Yes, I'm using CentOS 6.8 in the guest. Yes, OpenGL acceleration
>     works
>      > "out of the box" without compiling.
>      >
>      >
>      > I have a 3D app that runs on a server that requires 3D to be
>     working. If
>      > I run "vglconnect server1" then "vlgrun 3dapp" it will work without
>      > crashing, but if don't use "vglrun" it will crash. Very strange... It
>      > was working fine in CentOS 6.6 without using "vglrun".
>      >
>      >
>     ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>      > *From:* Brian Paul <brianp at vmware.com>
>      > *Sent:* October 27, 2016 1:08:17 PM
>      > *To:* Sam M; mesa-users at lists.freedesktop.org
>      > *Subject:* Re: [Mesa-users] Glxgears Crashes in VMware
>      > So you're using CentOS 6.8 in the guest now?
>      >
>      > Did OpenGL acceleration work "out of the box" before you tried
>     compiling
>      > things yourself?
>      >
>      > I've only tested with CentOS 7 a while back and that seemed to work.
>      > I'm afraid I don't have time to dig into this right now.  Maybe next
>      > week when I'm back in my office.
>      >
>      > -Brian
>      >
>      > On 10/27/2016 10:06 AM, Sam M wrote:
>      >> When Open a terminal and run the following
>      >>
>      >>
>      >> LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT=y glxgears
>      >> LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT=n glxgears
>      >>
>      >> then X crashes, you're presented with the gnome login screen
>     eventually.
>      >>
>      >>
>     ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>      >> *From:* mesa-users <mesa-users-bounces at lists.freedesktop.org> on
>     behalf
>      >> of Sam M <sam_h00 at hotmail.com>
>      >> *Sent:* October 27, 2016 10:10:10 AM
>      >> *To:* mesa-users at lists.freedesktop.org
>      >> *Subject:* [Mesa-users] Glxgears Crashes in VMware
>      >>
>      >> Hello,
>      >>
>      >>
>      >> I'm having issues with glxgears crashing in VMware v12.
>     Glxgears will
>      >> crash the xorg (the screen will freeze and then a new login screen
>      >> reappears). I've tried compiling from source code, but with no
>     luck. The
>      >> crash doesn't happen on CentOS 6.6
>      >>
>      >> OS: CentOS 6.8
>      >>
>      >> OpenGL vendor string: VMware, Inc.
>      >> OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on SVGA3D; build: RELEASE;
>      >> OpenGL version string: 2.1 Mesa 10.6.9
>      >> OpenGL shading language version string: 1.20
>      >>
>      >> Any help would be much appreciated.
>      >>
>      >>
>      >> Thanks,
>      >>
>      >> Sam
>      >>
>      >>
>      >>
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