Re: [Visualpython-users] Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic) installation/fix: WARNING!!

[Gary P. <gar...@gm...>]

On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 11:13 PM, Guy K. Kloss <g....@ma...> wrote:

> Hi Gary,
>
> the symptoms you've mentioned indicate that something else went (massively)
> wrong, as I doubt that any "normal" Python process or anything that the
> Visual
> library can do would result in such effects. Maybe it's got to do with your
> graphic card's drivers. Anyway, whatever process *you* start should usually
> *only* be able to affect user space things. But your descriptions go way
> beyond what a graphics based application generally would do.
>
> I have just checked again here, and all demos I've checked worked. Well,
> stonehenge.py did not, but that was only due to the fact that the file
> "flower128.tga" is not present in the samples directory. I don't know,
> maybe
> it was removed due to licensing issues or just forgotten. But also all
> surface
> textures worked here.
>
> It would however be good to track down what your problem is. Maybe not as
> much
> for VPython as for your own system's sake. Have a look at /var/log/messages
> and /var/log/syslog what might have happened and led to the crash. Also
> check
> whether other OpenGL based applications show similar effects.
>

I found some corrupt memory errors in the log that occurred close in time to
my usage of another new application that I had started with sudo.  I'm
tracking down that line also.


>
> Hope these were some hints on tracking down the cause,
>
> Guyt
>
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