[SunRay-Users] Matlab crashes Xnewt

[Tom Crummey]

Hello Philippe,

I can't see how /usr/lib64/libGL.so and libGLU.so will help me, as Xnewt 
does not depend on those, and neither does matlab.

Did you ever get a stack trace from Xnewt when it crashes for you? If 
so, could you post it?

Thanks,

Philippe Bourdeu d'Aguerre wrote:
> Le vendredi 03 avril 2009, Tom Crummey a écrit :
>> If anyone else is experiencing crashes with Xnewt in SRSS, i would like 
>> to hear from them, so as to get a fuller picture of the environments and 
>> applications that are in use when this problem occurs.
>>
> I second that. As I have already explained we use several microelectronic 
> applications that crash Xnewt. I am using CentOs 5.3 and SRSS 4.1 with patch.
> 
> 1) SILVACO TonyPlot3D
> When lauching Tonyplot3D, Xserver 
> crashes. There is a workaround by using provided libGL.so and libGLU.so in 
> place of /usr/lib64/libGL.so and /usr/lib64/libGLU.so. Perhaps, you could try 
> Mathlab with SILVACO provided libs ?
> 
> 2) COVENTOR preprocessor
> With this program, everything is fine until we try to move or resize the 
> window. This causes a crash of Xnewt.
> 
> 3) COMSOL
> This is a bit off topic. With this application 3D is not working with Xnewt 
> server on Solaris10 (but no crash). It works with old Xsun server.

-- 
Tom.

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