[Scilab-users] ?==?utf-8?q? Both scilab 5.5.2 & 6.0 stopped working (java issue under linux)

[Tim Wescott]

There's a known bug, at least in Ubuntu's bug base.

It appears to vary by hardware -- it doesn't work on this machine, but
it works on at least one of my laptops.

On Sat, 2018-01-20 at 08:45 +0100, antoine monmayrant wrote:
> I just noticed that I did not fill a bug report for that.
> I have 3 of my colleagues running Scilab on Ubuntu 17.04 /17.10 that
> are 
> also affected.
> Should I fill a bug report or it corresponds to a known one?
> 
> 
> Antoine
> 
> 
> Le 04/12/2017 à 17:05, Clément David a écrit :
> > 
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > Nice catch Antoine ! From my understanding of the crash and
> > depending on your graphic card, you
> > could switch the actual GL implementation to a well supported one
> > rather than relying on the latest
> > GL. For example, using mesa on my Intel i965 system, I can tweak
> > the used Profile through
> > MESA_GL_VERSION_OVERRIDE and MESA_EXTENSION_OVERRIDE [https://www.m
> > esa3d.org/envvars.html].
> > 
> > Regards,
> > 
> > --
> > Clément
> > 
> > Le lundi 04 décembre 2017 à 16:38 +0100, Antoine Monmayrant a écrit
> > :
> > > 
> > > Hi all,
> > > 
> > > Answering my own post: it was a graphic driver issue, as usual.
> > > I switch to another driver and now scilab starts, but all the
> > > graphics windows are empty!
> > > 
> > > Antoine
> > >   
> > >   
> > > On Monday, December 04, 2017 16:12 CET, "Antoine Monmayrant" <amo
> > > nmayr at laas.fr> wrote:
> > >   
> > > > 
> > > > Hi everyone,
> > > > 
> > > > It seems that some automatic update have broken scilab on my
> > > > linux station (16.04.3 64bits).
> > > > Any java related feature is broken and only scilab-cli is
> > > > working.
> > > > As any of you any idea on how to investigate this issue?
> > > > 
> > > > Thanks in advance,
> > > > 
> > > > Antoine
> > > > 
> > > > PS: Here is the crash log:
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > $ scilab
> > > > Could not create a Scilab main class. Error:
> > > > Exception in thread "main" java.lang.InternalError: XXX0
> > > > profile[1]: GL3bc -> profileImpl GL4bc
> > > > !!! not mapped
> > > >          at
> > > > com.jogamp.opengl.GLProfile.computeProfileMap(GLProfile.java:20
> > > > 71)
> > > >          at
> > > > com.jogamp.opengl.GLProfile.initProfilesForDeviceCritical(GLPro
> > > > file.java:1954)
> > > >          at
> > > > com.jogamp.opengl.GLProfile.initProfilesForDevice(GLProfile.jav
> > > > a:1875)
> > > >          at
> > > > com.jogamp.opengl.GLProfile.initProfilesForDefaultDevices(GLPro
> > > > file.java:1842)
> > > >          at
> > > > com.jogamp.opengl.GLProfile.access$000(GLProfile.java:80)
> > > >          at
> > > > com.jogamp.opengl.GLProfile$1.run(GLProfile.java:230)
> > > >          at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native
> > > > Method)
> > > >          at
> > > > com.jogamp.opengl.GLProfile.initSingleton(GLProfile.java:216)
> > > >          at
> > > > com.jogamp.opengl.GLProfile.getProfileMap(GLProfile.java:2297)
> > > >          at com.jogamp.opengl.GLProfile.get(GLProfile.java:988)
> > > >          at
> > > > com.jogamp.opengl.GLProfile.getDefault(GLProfile.java:722)
> > > >          at
> > > > com.jogamp.opengl.GLProfile.getDefault(GLProfile.java:733)
> > > >          at org.scilab.modules.gui.SwingView.<init>(Unknown
> > > > Source)
> > > >          at
> > > > org.scilab.modules.gui.SwingView.registerSwingView(Unknown
> > > > Source)
> > > >          at org.scilab.modules.core.Scilab.<init>(Unknown
> > > > Source)
> > > > 
> > > > Scilab cannot create Scilab Java Main-Class (we have not been
> > > > able to find the main Scilab
> > > > class. Check if the Scilab and thirdparty packages are
> > > > available).
> > > > 
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