Ubuntu
gnome-games package

swell-foop doesn't start

Bug #549896 reported by papukaija on 2010-03-27

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #561734: quadrapassel doesn't start: Failed to initialise clutter: Unable to select the newly created GLX context. Edit Remove

This bug affects 5 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	gnome-games (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: gnome-games

Starting this game from the menu does nothing. In terminal it gives:

failed to create drawable
Failed to initialise clutter: Unable to select the newly created GLX context

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: gnome-games 1:2.29.92-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-17.26-generic 2.6.32.10+drm33.1
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-17-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Mar 27 22:51:42 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release Candidate i386 (20091020.3)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
LANG=fi_FI.utf8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-games

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papukaija (papukaija) wrote on 2010-03-27:

Dependencies.txt Edit (5.8 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Duncan Lock (dunc) wrote on 2010-04-01:

This happens for me as well. I've got a nVidia 8800GTS video card and I'm using the default lucid video drives - nouveau, I think.

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papukaija (papukaija) wrote on 2010-04-04:

Setting to confirmed since this bug is affecting 3 people.

Changed in gnome-games (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed

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bbordwell (benbordwell) wrote on 2010-04-07:

ben@ben-desktop:~$ swell-foop
failed to create drawable
Failed to initialise clutter: Unable to select the newly created GLX context
ben@ben-desktop:~$ quadrapassel
failed to create drawable
Failed to initialise clutter: Unable to select the newly created GLX context
ben@ben-desktop:~$ lightsoff
failed to create drawable
Failed to initialise clutter: Unable to select the newly created GLX context

This is a bigger problem than just swell-foop. Running in gdb gives the exact same output, nothing more.