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0012756VTK(No Category)public2011-12-01 11:102016-07-06 14:45
ReporterLuke Dodd 
Assigned ToSebastien Jourdain 
PrioritynormalSeverityminorReproducibilityhave not tried
StatusclosedResolutionno change required 
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Summary0012756: xcb error with vtkPanel/Canvas on linux
DescriptionWhen a vtkPanel is disposed of often an error like the following is given:

[xcb] Unknown request in queue while dequeuing
[xcb] Most likely this is a multi-threaded client and XInitThreads has not been called
[xcb] Aborting, sorry about that.
java: ../../src/xcb_io.c:178: dequeue_pending_request: Assertion `!xcb_xlib_unknown_req_in_deq' failed.

It's fairly non deterministic, but this code seems to reproduce around 50% of the time: https://github.com/lukedodd/lwjgl-vtkcanvas/blob/lwjgl-vtkcanvas/lwjglvtkcanvas/VTKXCBBugReproduce.java [^]

I've seen this issue occur on many different versions of 64 bit Ubuntu, it was present in vtk 5.6, 5.8 and recent git checkouts.

As way around this I created a vtk canvas class that uses LWJGL (a java opengl wrapper) to set up the context and draw to an awt component, and then uses a tweaked vtkGenericOpenGLRenderWindow to have vtk draw to this context. This fixed the issue in my actual program, for the test case, and for someone else.

See this thread for details: http://vtk.1045678.n5.nabble.com/Crashes-in-Java-wrapped-vtk-on-linux-because-of-xcb-problems-td5023093.html [^]

And this github: https://github.com/lukedodd/lwjgl-vtkcanvas [^]
Especially the following directory: https://github.com/lukedodd/lwjgl-vtkcanvas/tree/lwjgl-vtkcanvas/lwjglvtkcanvas [^]

(I don't expect any of the code on the git hub to be put into vtk in it's current form, but hopefully it's hepful in pinning down exactly what's going on)
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Date ModifiedUsernameFieldChange
2011-12-01 11:10Luke DoddNew Issue
2011-12-01 11:34Luke DoddNote Added: 0027750
2012-03-02 15:21Jerome RobertNote Added: 0028336
2012-06-15 02:29Jerome RobertNote Added: 0028699
2014-10-02 09:59Berk GeveciAssigned To => Sebastien Jourdain
2016-07-06 14:45Sebastien JourdainNote Added: 0036220
2016-07-06 14:45Sebastien JourdainStatusbacklog => closed
2016-07-06 14:45Sebastien JourdainResolutionopen => no change required

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(0027750)
Luke Dodd   
2011-12-01 11:34   
Just got a not-so-helpful stack trace:

#0 0x00007f22ee4db3a5 in __GI_raise (sig=6) at ../nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/raise.c:64
#1 0x00007f22ee4deb0b in __GI_abort () at abort.c:92
#2 0x00007f22ee4d3d4d in __GI___assert_fail (assertion=0x7f22e72b87a5 "!xcb_xlib_unknown_req_in_deq", file=<optimized out>, line=178,
    function=<optimized out>) at assert.c:81
#3 0x00007f22e7244b79 in ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libX11.so.6
#4 0x00007f22e7245cbc in _XReply () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libX11.so.6
#5 0x00007f22e722f754 in XInternAtom () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libX11.so.6
#6 0x00007f22e7783a68 in Java_sun_awt_X11_XlibWrapper_InternAtom () from /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun-1.6.0.26/jre/lib/amd64/xawt/libmawt.so
#7 0x00007f22e978fd6e in ?? ()
#8 0x0000000000000000 in ?? ()


Interestingly there are no vtk calls there.
(0028336)
Jerome Robert   
2012-03-02 15:21   
I reproduce this issue with the nvidia driver but it disappear when I switch to the "nouveau" driver. So unfortunately it seems to be driver related.
(0028699)
Jerome Robert   
2012-06-15 02:29   
Using the -Dsun.java2d.opengl=true flag seems to make the segfault disappear, but make the actors flickering when rotating the scene.
(0036220)
Sebastien Jourdain   
2016-07-06 14:45   
We have JOGL implementation that might solve that issue. Closing it.