I've got it down to a much smaller test case, there's no effects or anything anymore, it just crashes within 10-15 seconds. There is a curious line though, commented out, that if uncommented will cause it not to crash. I will let the script speak for itself.
http://www.chard.ath.cx/~richard/files/opengl_crash.py Richard. On Mar 6, 7:00 pm, Tristam MacDonald <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 1:43 PM, Richard Thomas <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mar 6, 12:51 am, Tristam MacDonald <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 5:42 PM, Richard Thomas <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > On Mar 5, 9:10 pm, Tristam MacDonald <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 1:57 PM, Richard Thomas <[email protected]> > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > I am experiencing a very weird bug. My interpreter keeps > > segfaulting > > > > > > when I do any serious amount of GL. It almost always happens but > > not > > > > > > after a consistent amount of time. I have a simple lap timer > > program I > > > > > > wrote and to keep it from being boring I put a little expanding > > > > > > circles effect in the background. Now if I disable the label that's > > > > > > displaying the time or the circles then it'll run seemingly forever > > > > > > without crashing, if I do both at once it crashes within a minute > > or > > > > > > so. > > > > > > > I've exhausted almost every possibility I can think of. I ran > > memtest > > > > > > for half a dozen passes in cases I had a hardware fault. Pyglet's > > GL > > > > > > wrapper is simple enough that I can't really see ctypes being the > > > > > > problem or foreign function libraries would be giving up all over > > the > > > > > > place. Besides which nobody else I've tried has had this problem. > > > > > > > Is there anyone who's experienced anything like this? > > > > > > > Sometimes I get a bus error instead of a seg fault. > > > > > > What Mac hardware are you running? > > > > > If you have the Intel integrated X3100 GPU, present in 2008 MacBooks > > and > > > > > iMacs, and possibly some Mac Minis, then any attempt to mix immediate > > > > mode > > > > > OpenGL with VBOs can cause both segfaults and bus errors. > > > > > There are a couple of posts on my blog (in signature) related to this > > > > issue. > > > > > Yes, I am using an X3100 GPU on an early 2008 MacBook. The conditions > > > > you describe make sense as labels are VBO based and my circle effect > > > > was immediate mode. However, I am already running 10.5.6. I downloaded > > > > and ran the test from your blog for 10 minutes with no sign of a > > > > problem so this may be another (albeit similar) issue. Sometimes the > > > > traceback is inside a glDrawArray (presumably from pyglets batch > > > > rendering) and sometimes a glVertex2f (my immediate mode rendering). > > > > > I'm not sure I know where to start with whittling out a narrow test > > > > case. Any advice? > > > > > Richard. > > > > My original test case doesn't seem to cover all the problems, in > > particular > > > Blender still crashes regularly. I would recommend that you try switching > > > your circle effect over to VBO (i.e. pyglet.graphics.triangle_list) > > > temporarily, and see if the problem still occurs. > > > Having switched to VBOs it still crashes. Maybe there's just a problem > > with VBOs... > > > I'd be grateful if anyone on similar hardware (early 2008 MacBook, > > X3100 GPU) could run this test for a few minutes and report what > > happens. There is a pair of lines one of which is commented to swap > > from immediate mode on the circles to VBOs. > > > Script:http://www.chard.ath.cx/~richard/files/opengl_crash.py<http://www.chard.ath.cx/%7Erichard/files/opengl_crash.py> > > Crashed after about 20 seconds on my MacBook (White, September 2008, X3100). > About a minute later the whole system went down, as has often happened in my > test of this bug. It is definitely the same issue I was testing before, but > you seem to have discovered a new facet of it. > > -- > Tristam MacDonaldhttp://swiftcoder.wordpress.com/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "pyglet-users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/pyglet-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
