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From: Alberto Luaces <alua...@udc.es>
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Subject: Re: freeglut seems very fragile.
Date: Sun, 02 Sep 2012 09:33:08 +0200
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Rob writes:

> I've taken to putting the infamous glxgears back under glut so that I can 
> port it to a variety of different VMs where I'm testing performance against 
> the native linux host with an NVIDIA 460 GPU.
>
> In an openSUSE guest the thing segfaulted even though it compiled and ran 
> on a 32 bit XP guest, and the native 64 bit fedora host.
>

[...]

> The inline comment says it all.  It only seems to require the glutGet() in openSUSE.
> Any thoughts or comments?  Note that it executes without the glutGet() but cannot
> find the correct visual.  When I add glutGet() it ALWAYS succeeds...Weird!

As a comment, it seems that the freeglut version that your openSUSE is
providing is at fault.  Try other version if possible; if not, you can
also compile freeglut from the latest source available.