Bug 1068887 - Blender crashes on startup
Summary: Blender crashes on startup
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED EOL
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: blender
Version: 20
Hardware: i686
OS: Linux
unspecified
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Jochen Schmitt
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2014-02-22 21:50 UTC by Alexandre Franke
Modified: 2015-06-30 00:54 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2015-06-30 00:54:35 UTC
Type: Bug
Embargoed:


Attachments (Terms of Use)
Output of lspci -vv (12.49 KB, text/plain)
2014-02-23 20:47 UTC, Alexandre Franke
no flags Details
Output of glxinfo (24.56 KB, text/plain)
2014-02-23 20:48 UTC, Alexandre Franke
no flags Details
Output of cat /proc/cpuinfo (596 bytes, text/plain)
2014-02-24 19:07 UTC, Alexandre Franke
no flags Details

Description Alexandre Franke 2014-02-22 21:50:54 UTC
When launching Blender from GNOME Shell, nothing happens (i.e. it is not launched). When launching from the command line, I get the following:

$ blender
connect failed: No such file or directory
Instruction non permise (core dumped)

So I try running it in gdb:
(gdb) r
Starting program: /usr/bin/blender 
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
Using host libthread_db library "/lib/libthread_db.so.1".
[New Thread 0xb73ffb40 (LWP 4463)]
connect failed: No such file or directory

Program received signal SIGILL, Illegal instruction.
0x0906c206 in RNA_def_property_range ()

(gdb) thread apply all bt

Thread 2 (Thread 0xb73ffb40 (LWP 4463)):
#0  0xb7fff424 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
#1  0x4803ca95 in sem_wait@@GLIBC_2.1 () at ../nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386/i486/sem_wait.S:79
#2  0x488715df in IlmThread::Semaphore::wait() () from /lib/libIlmThread.so.6
#3  0x48870922 in IlmThread::(anonymous namespace)::WorkerThread::run() () from /lib/libIlmThread.so.6
#4  0x48871250 in IlmThread::(anonymous namespace)::threadLoop(void*) () from /lib/libIlmThread.so.6
#5  0x48036d8a in start_thread (arg=0xb73ffb40) at pthread_create.c:309
#6  0x47f60a0e in clone () at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386/clone.S:129

Thread 1 (Thread 0xb7fcb7c0 (LWP 4459)):
#0  0x0906c206 in RNA_def_property_range ()
#1  0x090703e5 in RNA_def_int ()
#2  0x084b7c17 in WM_OT_userpref_autoexec_path_remove ()
#3  0x084bbb47 in WM_operatortype_append ()
#4  0x084c08ac in wm_operatortype_init ()
#5  0x084b2a09 in WM_init ()
#6  0x0848a1ed in main ()

This is on Fedora 20 with blender.i686 1:2.69-5.fc20 (latest available from @updates).
Let me know if there's anything more I can do.

Comment 1 Jochen Schmitt 2014-02-23 19:58:44 UTC
At firt tahk you that you have take the time to create this bug report. It may be nice, if
you can tell me which graphics adapter do you use. In addtional the output of the
lspci -vv and glxinfo comands may be helpful.

Comment 2 Alexandre Franke 2014-02-23 20:47:17 UTC
Created attachment 866771 [details]
Output of lspci -vv

Comment 3 Alexandre Franke 2014-02-23 20:48:00 UTC
Created attachment 866772 [details]
Output of glxinfo

Comment 4 Alexandre Franke 2014-02-23 20:48:23 UTC
I have an ATI Radeon 9800 graphics card.

Comment 5 Jochen Schmitt 2014-02-24 15:24:59 UTC
Thank you for your responds. Can you tell me which driver do you use for your graphics adaper,
because I Assum that your issue depends on the drvier of your graphics adapter.

Comment 6 Alexandre Franke 2014-02-24 15:49:20 UTC
As the attached lspci output says:
	Kernel driver in use: radeon

Comment 7 François Cami 2014-02-24 16:04:00 UTC
@Jochen: this doesn't look like a Mesa bug to me, but I could be wrong.

@Alexandre: could you please attach the output of:
$ cat /proc/cpuinfo

I'm pretty sure you're running an Athlon (circa 2001 or so?). Tbh I haven't tested our 32-bit Blender for a long, long while, and I'm wondering if we're including instructions (through optimizations) that that particular CPU can't handle.

Comment 8 Alexandre Franke 2014-02-24 16:34:25 UTC
I'm currently at work on another machine. The issue happens on my machine at home which is indeed an Athlon 2600+ (32-bit). I'll provide the cpuinfo this evening when I get back home.

Comment 9 Alexandre Franke 2014-02-24 19:07:14 UTC
Created attachment 867118 [details]
Output of cat /proc/cpuinfo

Comment 10 Alexandre Franke 2014-02-24 19:32:34 UTC
(In reply to François Cami from comment #7)
> I'm pretty sure you're running an Athlon (circa 2001 or so?).

Late 2003 actually according to Wikipedia. ;-)

> I'm wondering if we're
> including instructions (through optimizations) that that particular CPU
> can't handle.

For my culture, I'm interested in an explanation of how you'll check that.

Comment 11 Christophe Fergeau 2014-06-05 08:34:22 UTC
This CPU does not seem to support SSE2. The log for the build of blender mentions "SSE2 Support: detected." and blender seems to be compiled with SSE2 support after that as the CFLAGS have -D__SSE2__
I don't know what is the minimal set of feature we expect from 32 bit machines running fedora these days.
One way of checking which instruction triggered the SIGILL would be to use 'disass' in gdb after breaking in RNA_def_property_range

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