VESTA goes down in Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS when atom is selected.

[guedes.s...@gmail.com]

Dear collegues,

In Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS, VESTA in all versions goes off when we try to select some atom of bond.

Does somebody knows how to solve this problem?

I have installed Cairo and libpng12, but did not work.

Thanks.

[Lanna Emilli]

Dear Guedes, 

Is there a possibility this comes from Ubuntu 22 itself?
I have been facing several issues with this OS version, not specifically with VESTA, but with different video-related problems (2nd monitor, etc) and even other visualization software like VESTA as well (for example ASE and XCrysDen).
Finally, I have decided to downgrade back to Ubuntu 20.04, at least for now.


Best regards,

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[guedes.s...@gmail.com]

Hey Lanna. Thanks for reply.

Yes, It's possible. However, It'is quite weird at the same time since I have tried dozens Vesta's version. No sucess.
Since Ubuntu 22 it is a long time support, I suppose not consider to downgrade. I have tried to solve that by several ways.

In addition, I think that Vesta developers should be in attention to this kind of problem because I'm not the unique facing this problem.

That's too bad.

[master...@googlemail.com]

Let me jump in with a "me too" here. Selecting atoms kills VESTA-gui on the spot on a LINUX Mint install 21.1 (Ubuntu 22.04 based). It's a seg-fault in libllvm:

kernel: VESTA-gui[6927]: segfault at 41 ip 00007f0852ac7381 sp 00007ffec3814e60 error 4 in libLLVM-15.so.1[7f085100e000+6712000]

Any help from the devs on this? Would an older/different version of llvm help?

[Koichi Momma]

Would you please try the latest development version?
http://jp-minerals.org/vesta/archives/testing/

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[master...@googlemail.com]

Thanks for the reply! The testing version still crashes:

VESTA-gui[4973]: segfault at 41 ip 00007f78f2ac7381 sp 00007fff03b52f50 error 4 in libLLVM-15.so.1[7f78f100e000+6712000]

[master...@googlemail.com]

btw: on the same machine VESTA also dies the same way when running the windows version via wine (for which I have openGL enabled) but if I log in via SSH from a WSL-Terminal with X-forward  it works. So the problem appears to be graphics/openGL related. And just in case this helps:

Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor Integrated Graphics
    driver: i915 v: kernel
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.4 driver: X: loaded: modesetting
    unloaded: fbdev,vesa gpu: i915 resolution: 1: 2560x1440~60Hz
    2: 1920x1200~60Hz
  OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel HD Graphics 4600 (HSW GT2)

    v: 4.6 Mesa 23.0.4-0ubuntu1~22.04.1

[master...@googlemail.com]

another update: VESTA works (with relatively poor performance) when used with software rendering via LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=1

[Martin Adelaido Hernandez L]

Greetings

I made an icon for VESTA on the Desktop with the following information, and it works for me. I can select atoms and measure distances without problems, I hope it is useful for someone, I use Linux Mint 22.0.

[Desktop Entry]
Name=VESTAgtk2
Exec=/usr/bin/env LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=1 /home/martin/VESTA/VESTA
Comment=Structures
Terminal=false
PrefersNonDefaultGPU=false
Icon=/home/martin/VESTA-gtk2/img/logo.png
Type=Application

From the terminal the command would be: /usr/bin/env LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=1 /home/martin/VESTA/VESTA