Hello, I compiled blender 2.43 and have tried to work through this introductory tutorial: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Blender_3D:_Noob_to_Pro/Modeling_a_Simple_Person. Blender crashes X windows when I try the extrusion exercise. This behaviour is reproducible on the two machines I have tried and has been described here earlier this year: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-blender-maintainers/2007-January/000149.html but I could find no report of a fix.
On one of those machines I installed blender 2.44 (~x86) but the issue is still present. I don't know if the problem is with blender or with some modification of blender carried out by the ebuild. My next step is to attempt to build blender outside portage. In the meantime, if anyone has any advice to offer I'd like to hear it. My emerge --info is given below. Thanks, Roger garnet ~ $ emerge -pv blender These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] media-gfx/blender-2.44 USE="jpeg png sdl -blender-game -ffmpeg -nls -openal -openexr" 0 kB garnet ~ $ emerge --info Portage 2.1.2.7 (default-linux/x86/2006.1/server, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.4-r4, 2.6.18-gentoo-r4 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.18-gentoo-r4 i686 Celeron (Mendocino) Gentoo Base System version 1.12.6 Timestamp of tree: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 14:50:01 +0000 distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [enabled] ccache version 2.3 [enabled] dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.31 dev-lang/python: 2.4.3-r4 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: 2.3 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.60 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.14 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.17-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -O2" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/java-config/vms/ /etc/php/apache1-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -O2" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="ccache distcc distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://adelie.polymtl.ca/ ftp://gentoo.arcticnetwork.ca/pub/gentoo/ http://gentoo.osuosl.org/"; MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages --filter=H_**/files/digest-*" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage /usr/portage/local/layman/science" SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X Xaw3d aiglx alsa apache2 berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cairo cli cracklib crypt cups curl directfb doc dri emacs fbcon fftw fontconfig fortran fpx freetype2 gd gdbm gif gnuplot gpm graphviz gs gtk iconv ipv6 isdnlog jpeg jpeg2k lapack lcms ldap lesstif libg++ mad mailwrapper mbox midi mmx mp3 mudflap ncurses nptl nptlonly numeric ocaml ogg opengl openmp pam pcre pdf perl plotutils png postgres postscript ppds pppd python readline reflection sdl session snmp spl ssl tcl tcltk tcpd tetex tiff tk tokenizer truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode utf8 wmf wxwindows x86 xinerama xml xml2 xorg xpm zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1 emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev keyboard mouse wacom" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="vesa fbdev r128" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
