Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 187642
freeglut 2.4.0 aborts with "Failed to create cursor"
Last modified: 2018-04-11 07:03:29 EDT
Description of problem:Running knotplot, which depends on freeglut, the program aborts with a message "freeglut (knotplot): Failed to create cursor" Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): freeglut-2.4.0-4 How reproducible: Try to run knotplot. This is a known bug that affects other programs too, see http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=8199462&forum_id=6252 Steps to Reproduce: 1. run knotplot 2. 3. Actual results: Program aborts with message "freeglut (knotplot): Failed to create cursor" Expected results: program runs. Additional info: Downgrading freeglut to 2.2.0 fixes the problem. But a patch for freeglut 2.4.0 has been posted at the above link, which I have not tried
Please report this issue to the freeglut project's bug tracker on sourceforge, and/or discuss the issue on one of the freeglut mailing lists. Once the developers have officially blessed a particular patch/solution and committed it to CVS, we will review it and consider it for inclusion in a future update. Please provide a URL to the upstream bug report for tracking purposes. Thanks in advance.
It has apparantly been fixed in CVS for over 8 months but the last stable release, which seems to be the fedora version, was 9 months ago. https://test.sf.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=8208707&forum_id=6251
Ugh. I must praise the freeglut project for having decent enough ideology to free the GLUT API from the non-open license the original GLUT implementation was under, but unfortunately they lose points for not embracing the open source concept of "release early, release often". In 3 years (or is it 4?) they have released 2 versions of freeglut, and never ever release bugfix releases ever. Perhaps it is time for us to consider looking into OpenGLUT as an open source alternative to freeglut.
(In reply to comment #3) > Perhaps it is time for us to consider looking into OpenGLUT as an open > source alternative to freeglut. A month or so ago I investigated OpenGLUT, and it turns out to not be a suitable replacement, as it does not guarantee compatibility with GLUT like freeglut does. So, we're stuck using freeglut and patching it for the time being...
Reporter, could you confirm please, that this bug still could be reproduced with the latest release of Fedora (FC6)?
Yes it is still the same bug both in FC6 with freeglut-2.4.0-11.fc6 and in FC5 with freeglut-2.4.0-4
This isn't my bug.
This has long been fixed: * Sun Mar 18 2007 Hans de Goede <j.w.r.degoede@hhs.nl> 2.4.0-11 - Minor specfile cleanups - Add a patch from gentoo to stop flightgear from crashing That patch from gentoo is the same patch as linked to above, and freeglut-2.4.0-11.fc6 has been available from Fedora Extras since March 19 2007, closing.