[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#743885: Bug#743885: octave: Octave triggers an assertion in Mesa

[Thomas Weber]

On Tue, Apr 08, 2014 at 12:07:18PM -0400, Mike Miller wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 23:51:46 +0200, Thomas Weber wrote:
> > I am filing the bug right now in the hope that someone has an idea on
> > how to continue with this - I have no clue whatsoever about Mesa.
> 
> I am unable to reproduce on my laptop with Intel integrated graphics,
> and I'm using the same i965 driver that your backtrace lists. I don't
> know much about mesa either, but it could be that this is hardware
> dependent since the assertion seems to be coming specifically from the
> i965 driver.
> 
> Do you have a different video card you can test on?

I am running Debian unstable only on my laptop (Lenovo T61). I might be
able to test it on some other hardware, but that would require quite an
investment of time (installing Debian, while keeping my 2.5 year old from
"helping" Daddy :)). And I am lacking time already.

> Any difference when you run the test with LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT=y in
> your environment?
Yes, my X server crashes! So kids, don't try this at home.

> I see this listed in the mesa upstream bug tracker:
>   https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36193
I saw this too, but considered it unrelated as it mentioned VmWare. Hmm,
maybe I should add myself to the bug report, as I can reproduce it with
100% reliability.

	Thomas