[Scilab-users] Cannot start Scilab 6.1.1

[Stefan Du Rietz]

Hi Stéphane,

Thank you very much, your command worked!
$ sudo apt install libtinfo5

Then Scilab started OK, but with many messages:

stefan at LenovoTS:/usr/local/scilab/scilab-6.1.1$ ./bin/scilab &
[1] 276737
stefan at LenovoTS:/usr/local/scilab/scilab-6.1.1$ X Error of failed 
request:  BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation)
   Major opcode of failed request:  152 (GLX)
   Minor opcode of failed request:  24 (X_GLXCreateNewContext)
   Value in failed request:  0x0
   Serial number of failed request:  110
   Current serial number in output stream:  111
javax.media.opengl.GLException: X11GLXDrawableFactory - Could not 
initialize shared resources for :0.0
   at 
jogamp.opengl.x11.glx.X11GLXDrawableFactory$SharedResourceImplementation.createSharedResource(X11GLXDrawableFactory.java:317)
   at jogamp.opengl.SharedResourceRunner.run(SharedResourceRunner.java:295)
   at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748)
Caused by: javax.media.opengl.GLException: main-SharedResourceRunner: 
Unable to create temp OpenGL context(1)
   at jogamp.opengl.x11.glx.X11GLXContext.createImpl(X11GLXContext.java:343)
   at 
jogamp.opengl.GLContextImpl.makeCurrentWithinLock(GLContextImpl.java:696)
   at jogamp.opengl.GLContextImpl.makeCurrent(GLContextImpl.java:589)
   at jogamp.opengl.GLContextImpl.makeCurrent(GLContextImpl.java:539)
   at 
jogamp.opengl.x11.glx.X11GLXDrawableFactory$SharedResourceImplementation.createSharedResource(X11GLXDrawableFactory.java:293)
   ... 2 more
[Fatal Error] :1:1: Premature end of file.

/Stefan


On 2022-03-29 16:02, Stéphane Mottelet wrote:
> Hi Stefan,
> 
> Did you try to google with
> 
> "libtinfo.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory"
> 
> There is a bunch of possible fixes. did you try :
> 
> sudo apt install libtinfo5
> 
> ?
> 
> S.
>