[IDV #UXR-866010]: IDV hangs on launch

Greetings Craig,

If you are trying to run the IDV over an ssh connection, you will need to use a 
remote desktop
client (like VNC) so that you have access to the machines video card (Java3D 
uses openGL, which
needs access to the remote machine's video card).

Sean

> Hi,
> 
> I just installed the latest nightly build of IDV for 64-bit Linux on SDSC's 
> gordon supercomputing cluster.
> 
> When I try to run IDV through an X11 Window terminal, it generates these 
> errors and crashes:
> 
> Java 3D ERROR : glXMakeCurrent fails
> Canvas3D_createNewContext: couldn't make current
> 
> DefaultRenderingErrorListener.errorOccurred:
> CONTEXT_CREATION_ERROR: Renderer: Error creating Canvas3D graphics context
> graphicsDevice = X11GraphicsDevice[screen=0]
> canvas = visad.java3d.VisADCanvasJ3D[canvas0,0,0,592x462]
> 
> java -version tells me they have java 1.6.0_26 installed.
> 
> Is there some environment variable I can set to make it work?
> 
> Thank you!
> Craig
> 
> 

Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: UXR-866010
Department: Support IDV
Priority: Normal
Status: Open