[Fluxus] Ubuntu and fluxus 0.13

Dave Griffiths dave at pawfal.org
Tue Oct 16 15:49:57 PDT 2007


On Tue, 2007-10-16 at 23:12 +0100, Gerry Grainger wrote:
> Hi folks: just a quick one here: has anyone else noticed that fluxus
> is unstable on Ubuntu? I've worked with both 7.04 and 7.10, and I keep
> getting erratic results: fluxus will start about once in every eight
> attempts. Other times, it just spawns the process and silently eats
> CPU cycles, or it segfaults, with different messages each time. I
> think it's to do with the version of glut that Ubuntu now carries - I
> only got that impression from the one lucky time when fluxus actually
> spat out an error message that was human-decipherable. It said
> something about freeglut not being able to draw the window. 
> Ideas, anyone?

I'm using ubuntu 7.04 - could you run fluxus through gdb and see if it
catches the crash?

Also, did the changes to main.cpp with the accumulation buffer make any
difference? (Is this the same machine?)

cheers,

dave






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