[CentOS] pymol

Tue Feb 5 21:33:28 UTC 2013
m.roth at 5-cent.us <m.roth at 5-cent.us>

James A. Peltier wrote:
> mark wrote:
> | Anyone familiar with pymol?
> |
> | We're getting an error I find references to from a few years ago when
> | we try to run remotely on a headless server. I can run it fine on my
> | machine (CentOS 6.3, NVidia video), and on another person's workstation
> | remotely, with other make video, but the server's got a Matrox - which
> | shouldn't matter, since I'm running this after ssh -Y. pymol yum
installed
> | fine, no problems.
> |
> | I found, and did a export LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT=1, which allowed
> | glxgears to work, albeit slowly and unevenly, but pymol always gives me
> | freeglut (pymol):  ERROR:  Internal error <FBConfig with necessary
> | capabilities not found> in function fgOpenWindow
> | X Error of failed request:  BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)
> |   Major opcode of failed request:  4 (X_DestroyWindow)
> |   Resource id in failed request:  0x0
> |   Serial number of failed request:  24
> |   Current serial number in output stream:  27
> |  PyMOL: abrupt program termination.
> |
> | I read that this is two errors, not one, but other than the
> | environment variable, can't find any other fix.
>
> Try running it through TurboVNC  We've used it rather successfully with a
> boat load of OpenGL software such as Amira.

Oy - vnc on one subnet, from CentOS to CentOS? And the real annoyance is
that all involved are 6.3, and I believe all the correct libraries are
installed. I also updated glibc and xorg-x11 - there were three packages
due.

        mark