VESTA-x86_64 crash when open file

[Lars Bjaalie]

Dear VESTA creators/users,

When I open a structure in VESTA-x86_64 vers 3.1.6. the program crashes (becomes non-responsive). I have tried with POSCAR and .vesta files. 

I use fedora 17. The old version 2.1.6 works fine.

When I open VESTA I get the following info, maybe it is relevant:

OpenGL version: 2.1 Mesa 8.0.4
Video configuration: Mesa DRI Intel(R) Ivybridge Mobile
Maximum supported width and height of the viewport: 16384 x 16384
OpenGL depth buffer bit: 24

Is there anything I should update?

Thank you for your answer, and for providing this great software free of charge.

Regards,

Lars

[Greg Mann]

I thought I'd add my experience to this thread, since I'm experiencing the same issue. When I open a structure in VESTA-i686 v3.1.7 the processor goes crazy up to 99% usage and the application goes non-responsive. I'm running Ubuntu 13.10 32-bit. I get the following info from VESTA:

OpenGL version: 3.0 Mesa 9.2.1

Video configuration: Mesa DRI Intel(R) Sandybridge Mobile x86/MMX/SSE2

Maximum supported width and height of the viewport: 16384 x 16384

OpenGL depth buffer bit: 24

I'm running Intel drivers for integrated HD 3000 graphics, OpenGL support comes from Mesa.

Cheers,

Greg

[Koichi Momma]

Dear Lars and Greg,

Thank you for reporting.
Unfortunately, the bug is probably in the OpenGL driver, and I cannot debug the program unless I own the same hardware.

I would greatly appreciate if you can compile the following program (ApiTrace), run VESTA on top of it, and send me the output file of ApiTrace when VESTA crashed.

http://apitrace.github.io/

In the output file of ApiTrace, I might be able to find a way to workaround a bug in the video driver by looking at the last OpenGL call before VESTA crash.

Best regards,
Koichi

P.S. For users of desktop computers, I strongly recommend discrete video cards of nVIDIA. They provides the most robust and reliable OpenGL drivers.


Greg Mann wrote,On (1/17/14, 4:15 AM):

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[Lars Bjaalie]

Thank you for the reply. 

I upgraded to Fedora 19 a few months ago and the problem went away. I can use the latest version as of 01.18.14 with no problems. The openGL drivers probably updated along with Fedora version. So, I unfortunately cannot help you with diagnosing the problem. 

Regards,

Lars

Lars Bjaalie
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Computational Materials Group

University of California Santa Barbara

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[Koichi Momma]

Dear Lars,

That's very good to know.

Thank you!
Koichi



Lars Bjaalie wrote,On (1/19/14, 9:08 AM):

> Thank you for the reply.
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> I upgraded to Fedora 19 a few months ago and the problem went away. I can use the latest version as of 01.18.14 with no problems. The openGL drivers probably updated along with Fedora version. So, I unfortunately cannot help you with diagnosing the problem.
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> Regards,
> Lars
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> University of California Santa Barbara
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[claudio...@york.ac.uk]

Dear Koichi, konnichiwa

 I am having the same problem reported by Lars. My version is 3.4.0 64bits built Jan 8, 2017. Vesta freezes when I try to open a .vasp or .vesta file. It only opens the file when I pass the filename in the command line, as in

$ vesta example.vasp

 but then when I try to open any menu it freezes right away. The same thing happens when I open two or more files using the command line and try to change tabs. Upgrading my whole system (Centos 7 64 bits) and Nvidia drivers (I have Quadro K420, driver version 381.22) did not solve the problem, neither reinstalling VESTA. I have used apitrace as you asked the other users previously and I am attaching the trace of a run that I simply opened vesta from the command line, and them tried opening the file in ~/Calculations/Structures/Fcc.vasp (or Hcp.vasp, I don't remember, but it is surely one of those). The program then crashed and I tried to close the window without success. Finally I just waited for it to close itself after a few minutes.

 Please help, I rely on Vesta for my everyday work and this problem is really affecting my output here...

Thank you very much, arigatougosaimasu!

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