[xcrysden] BadWindow error when launching newly installed xcrysden

[Hideyuki KAMISAKA]

Dear Dan,

Did you try to fix the problem by modifying
the Togl options in xcrysden-1.5.60/Tcl/Viewer.tcl
and xcrysden-1.5.60/Tcl/fs/FS_{Main,Multi}.tcl ?

We have compiled xcrysden-1.5.53 on CentOS 5.7 successfully.
No special installation of additional middleware was needed.
The "-accum*" and ‘-stereo’, '-time' options in Togl was the key in our case.

If you already know this, please ignore this message.

Regards,

Hideyuki KAMISAKA

2014-10-29 4:48 GMT+09:00 Dan Mazur <daniel.mazur at mcgill.ca>:
> Hello,
>
> I am still not able to install this package. I have tried linking instead
> with a different OpenGL library, but I get the same results. If anyone can
> offer any advice on how to resolve the error, it would be much appreciated.
>
> -Dan
>
> On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 1:43 PM, Dan Mazur <daniel.mazur at mcgill.ca> wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have compiled the source distribution of xcrysden v 1.5.60 on CentOS 6.3
>> and the compilation and installation appears to proceed without errors.
>>
>> When I run xcrysden, it briefly opens an X11 splash window, but then
>> crashes with the following messages:
>>
>> $ xcrysden
>>
>> +-----------------------------------------------------------------+
>> |*****************************************************************|
>> |*                                                               *|
>> |*  XCrySDen -- (X-Window) CRYstalline Structures and DENsities  *|
>> |*               =         ===         =              ===        *|
>> |*---------------------------------------------------------------*|
>> |*                                                               *|
>> |*    Anton Kokalj (tone.kokalj at ijs.si)                          *|
>> |*    Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia                *|
>> |*                                                               *|
>> |*    Copyright (c) 1996--2014 by Anton Kokalj                   *|
>> |*                                                               *|
>> |*****************************************************************|
>> +-----------------------------------------------------------------+
>>
>>   Version: 1.5.60
>>
>>   Please report bugs to: tone.kokalj at ijs.si
>>
>>
>>   TERMS OF USE:
>>   -------------
>>   XCRYSDEN is released under the GNU General Public License.
>>
>>   Whenever graphics generated by XCRYSDEN are used in scientific
>>   publications, it shall be greatly appreciated to include an explicit
>>   reference. The preferred form is the following:
>>
>>   [ref] A. Kokalj, J. Mol. Graph. Model., Vol. 17, pp. 176-179, 1999.
>>         Code available from http://www.xcrysden.org/.
>>
>>
>> XCRYSDEN_TOPDIR=/software/CentOS-6/applications/xcrysden-1.5.60/share/xcrysden-1.5.60
>> XCRYSDEN_SCRATCH=/home/tfosrgm/xcrys_tmp
>>
>> Running on platform : unix
>>    Operating system : Linux
>> Package ImageMagick's convert: /usr/bin/convert
>> Package ImageMagick's import: /usr/bin/import
>> Package Ppmtompeg: /usr/bin/ppmtompeg
>> Package Xwd: /usr/bin/xwd
>> Executing:
>> /software/CentOS-6/applications/xcrysden-1.5.60/lib/xcrysden-1.5.60/ftnunit
>> X Error of failed request: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)
>>     Major opcode of failed request: 3
>>     ResourceID in failed request: 0xffffffff
>>     Serial number of failed request: 799
>> X Error of failed request: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)
>>     Major opcode of failed request: 3
>>     ResourceID in failed request: 0xffffffff
>>     Serial number of failed request: 801
>> Error in startup script: Togl: couldn't get visual
>>     while executing
>> "togl .mesa  -width          400  -height         400  -ident
>> .mesa  -rgba           true   -redsize        1      -greensize      1
>> -blu..."
>>     (procedure "PlaceGlobWin" line 105)
>>     invoked from within
>> "PlaceGlobWin 0 [expr round(650 * $fac1)] [expr round(650 * $fac1)]"
>>     (procedure "ViewMol" line 25)
>>     invoked from within
>> "ViewMol ."
>>     invoked from within
>> "if { [llength $argv] > 2 } {
>>     parseComLinArg [lrange $argv 2 end]
>> } else {
>>     ViewMol .
>> }"
>>     (file
>> "/software/CentOS-6/applications/xcrysden-1.5.60/share/xcrysden-1.5.60/Tcl/xcInit.tcl"
>> line 609)
>> X Error of failed request: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)
>>     Major opcode of failed request: 12
>>     ResourceID in failed request: 0xffffffff
>>     Serial number of failed request: 804
>>
>> I do not have problems with other OpenGL or X11 programs. I first tried
>> linking against libraries (including mesa) on the system, but got this
>> error. Then, I tried downloading and compiling the external libraries by
>> activating the required flags in Make.sys. However, I again got the above
>> error.
>>
>> I am not sure of the reason for the error. If someone can help me to debug
>> the issue and complete my installation of xcrysden, it would be appreciated.
>>
>>
>> -Dan
>>
>
>
>
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Hideyuki KAMISAKA

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