[pkg-fgfs-crew] Bug#763285: flightgear: failed to create GraphicsContext

Rebecca Palmer rebecca_palmer at zoho.com
Tue Sep 30 12:24:24 UTC 2014


Control: retitle -1 flightgear: failed to create GraphicsContext

> getDefaultWindow: failed to create GraphicsContext
> getDefaultWindow: failed to create GraphicsContext
I think this is your real problem: FlightGear is failing to create its 
main window and hence closing itself.  (The segfault appears to be the 
shutdown code then trying to clean up something that was never actually 
initialized: while technically a bug, it probably isn't the reason you 
can't use FlightGear.)

To check whether this is a problem further down the graphics stack, try:
glxgears (from package mesa-utils, should display animated gears; try 
both stable and testing/unstable versions)
osgwidgetstyled (from package openscenegraph, should display rectangles; 
you need 3.2.0~rc1-5.1+b1, currently in testing (but may not stay there 
long, so do this now), to match your existing libopenscenegraph99)

There is a new libopenscenegraph100, and a rebuild of simgear/flightgear 
against it, currently in unstable, but that may not be safe to install 
in a mostly-wheezy system, as its dependencies will replace your JPEG 
library (libjpeg62, 
https://release.debian.org/transitions/html/jpeg-turbo.html).

> Kernel: Linux 3.14-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Where did that come from?  Stable is 3.2, unstable/testing is 3.16.



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