[Bf-committers] blender-2, 77a crash under linux in vmware windows 10 host.

Dave Plater dplater.list at gmail.com
Wed Apr 27 09:58:36 CEST 2016



On 26/04/2016 09:29, Bastien Montagne wrote:
> This issue sounds rather odd indeed - though trying to run Blender on a
> linux VM from win10 host is looking for issues, imho… :P
>
> A couple of things to try:
> * Run blender on that VM with the software OpenGL drivers (using the
> `blender-softwaregl` distributed with official blender), this should
> definitively rule out potential graphic driver issues.

The official blender crashes in the same way but blender-softwaregl 
works so I'm assuming it comes from a Mesa update, the bug reporter runs 
openSUSE:Tumbleweed which has the latest releases of everything. There's 
a bug release of Mesa-11.2.1 I'm building for the reporter to try.

> * Run official Blender releases (archives from
> download.blender.org/releases), those are nearly totally statically
> linked, so should help spotting possible libs issues.
> * Create a debug build with asan enabled
> (https://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Doc/Tools/Debugging/GCC_Address_Sanitizer),
> found that tool tremendously easier to use than valgrind, and it already
> catches a lot of memory errors.
>
> Hope this help,
> Bastien
>
> Le 26/04/2016 08:52, Dave Plater a écrit :
>> Hi, I maintain blender for openSUSE and wondered if someone can help to
>> shed light on a difficult bug I'm working on. See:
>>     https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=976293
>> I've had the reporter run gdb and strace on blender but I can't see
>> anything in his output. After building a debug blender with gdb symbols,
>> jemalloc and valgrind, blender ran under valgrind.
>> Thanks,
>> Dave Plater


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