> On Feb 22, 2021, at 14:38, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I've made a little bit of progress.
> 
> The message "error: xp_attach_gl_context returned: 2" comes from the Mesa 
> routine surface_make_current, which calls xp_attach_gl_context.  I haven't 
> found where xp_attach_gl_context is defined.

xp_attach_gl_context is in libXplugin (check Xplugin.h in the SDK).

2 is XP_BadValue, which is returned if cgl_ctx is NULL... so I'd suggest 
looking into why mesa is calling xp_attach_gl_context with a NULL context.

> Secondly, the quartz() call in my example below starts several threads in R.  
> Execution of open3d() happens in the same thread with or without the quartz() 
> call, but the other threads in the process are quite different.  I don't know 
> how this would affect things, but maybe I need to re-initialize everything 
> related to XQuartz.
> 
> Duncan Murdoch
> 
> 
> On 22/02/2021 10:13 a.m., Duncan Murdoch wrote:
>> I hope this is the right list for this request.
>> I'm the developer of the rgl package for R, which uses glX to produce
>> displays in macOS and Linux.
>> It contains some kind of bug, which can be triggered (in both XQuartz
>> 2.7.11 and 2.8.0beta4) by the following script run in R in a terminal:
>>    library(rgl)  # Load the package; it opens and closes a glX window
>>                  # during initialization
>>    quartz()      # Open a regular R graphics window that works directly
>>                  # with Quartz
>>    open3d()      # Attempt to open a glX window
>> This produces the following errors:
>>   error: xp_attach_gl_context returned: 2
>>   Error in rgl.open(useNULL) : 'rgl.open' failed
>>   In addition: Warning message:
>>   In rgl.open(useNULL) : RGL: ERROR: can't bind glx context to window
>> The first line appears to be coming from XQuartz when the C++ code
>> attempts to execute
>>    glXMakeCurrent(factory->xdisplay, xwindow, glxctx)
>> in the X11WindowImpl::beginGL function.  The other lines are coming from
>> rgl or R.
>> I'm reasonably sure this is a bug in my code, because I can successfully
>> run glxgears from R, and open x11() windows in R, but after lots of time
>> debugging I can't figure out where the problem is.
>> Can anyone here suggest the kinds of issues that would lead to the
>> "error: xp_attach_gl_context returned: 2" message, and ways to track
>> down the underlying problem?
>> If anyone wants to try the code, it's probably best to use the update of
>> rgl that's at
>>    www.murdoch-sutherland.com/temp/rgl_0.105.14.2.tar.gz
>> which fixes some bugs in the CRAN version.
>> Duncan Murdoch
> 
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