[Gmsh] gmsh: tnl/t_draw.c:203: bind_inputs: Assertion `inputs[i]->BufferObj->Pointer' failed

Christophe Geuzaine cgeuzaine at ulg.ac.be
Sun Mar 29 12:40:51 CEST 2009


Andres Peratta wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> First of all, I would like to thank and congratulate the developers of GMSH 
> for their effort and for sharing it with the community.
> 
> Second, I would like to report a problem (maybe a bug?) with version 2.3.0.
> 
> The following message appears randomly in my system 
> 
> gmsh: tnl/t_draw.c:203: bind_inputs: Assertion `inputs[i]->BufferObj->Pointer' 
> failed.
> 
> This usually happens after performing a graphical operation with the mouse, 
> i.e. zoom, rotate, pan, resize window, and it never happened before with 
> previous versions of gmsh.

Looks like a problem with your machine's graphics card driver: try a 
Google search with "tnl/t_draw.c" (that code is part of Mesa3D).

The problem seems to be related to opengl vertex arrays, which new 
versions of Gmsh use extensively to improve rendering performance.


> 
> Here is some info on my system:
> 
> gmsh - v2.3.0  (I have not compiled it myself from source, instead, I 
> downloaded the binary from http://geuz.org/gmsh/#Download)
> 
> OS: Linux OpenSuse 10.3
> Kernel: 2.6.22.19-0.2-default
> gcc  4.2.1
> glibc 2.6.1
> fltk 1.1.7
> gsl 1.9
> 
> Best regards
> 
> Andres
> 
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