Bug#384518: libgl1-mesa-glx: crashes R-cran-rgl when exporting to pdf

[Gaspard Lequeux]

Package: libgl1-mesa-glx
Version: 6.4.2-1
Severity: normal


How to reproduce the bug:

install r-cran-rgl

Start R and enter the following line in R:

library(rgl);triangles3d(c(1,,2,3),c(1,2,4),c(1,3,5));rgl.postscript('testing.pdf','pdf')

R crashes with th following message:

X Error of failed request:  GLXBadContextState
  Major opcode of failed request:  142 (GLX)
  Minor opcode of failed request:  5 (X_GLXMakeCurrent)
  Serial number of failed request:  85
  Current serial number in output stream:  85

Installing libgl1-mesa-swx11 removes a lot of other packages (xorg...) but the system is still running and the above R line succeeds.

There is some discussion about this error on the r-help mailinglist (r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch) in the thread 'rgl: exporting to pdf or png does not work'.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-2-486
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages libgl1-mesa-glx depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.3.6-15   GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdrm2                       2.0.1-1    Userspace interface to kernel DRM 
ii  libx11-6                      2:1.0.0-8  X11 client-side library
ii  libxext6                      1:1.0.0-4  X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxxf86vm1                   1:1.0.0-4  X11 XFree86 video mode extension l

libgl1-mesa-glx recommends no packages.

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