[Debichem-devel] Bug#1100686: /usr/bin/xcrysden: Cannot launch xcrysden
Tone Kokalj
tone.kokalj at ijs.si
Mon Mar 17 11:35:22 GMT 2025
Dear Visuwesh,
A quick fix is to change the following line in the beginning of
/usr/share/xcrysden/Tcl/toglOpt.tcl:
set toglOpt(accum) true
to:
set toglOpt(accum) false
Best regards,
Tone
--
Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia
On Mon, 2025-03-17 at 15:32 +0530, Visuwesh wrote:
> Package: xcrysden
> Version: 1.6.2-4
> Severity: important
> File: /usr/bin/xcrysden
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> I cannot launch xcrysden (with or w/o args),
>
> % xcrysden
>
> +----------------------------------------------------------------
> -+
>
> |*****************************************************************|
> |*
> *|
> |* XCrySDen -- (X-Window) CRYstalline Structures and DENsities
> *|
> |* = === = ===
> *|
> |*---------------------------------------------------------------
> *|
> |*
> *|
> |* Anton Kokalj (tone.kokalj at ijs.si)
> *|
> |* Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia
> *|
> |*
> *|
> |* Copyright (c) 1996--2019 by Anton Kokalj
> *|
> |*
> *|
>
> |*****************************************************************|
> +----------------------------------------------------------------
> -+
>
> Version: 1.6.2
>
> Please report bugs to: tone.kokalj at ijs.si
>
>
> TERMS OF USE:
> -------------
> XCRYSDEN is released under the GNU General Public License.
>
> Whenever graphics generated by XCRYSDEN are used in scientific
> publications, it shall be greatly appreciated to include an
> explicit
> reference. The preferred form is the following:
>
> [ref] A. Kokalj, J. Mol. Graph. Model., Vol. 17, pp. 176-179,
> 1999.
> Code available from http://www.xcrysden.org/.
>
> XCRYSDEN_TOPDIR=/usr/share/xcrysden
> XCRYSDEN_SCRATCH=/tmp
>
> Running on platform : unix
> Operating system : Linux
> Package Ppmtompeg: /usr/bin/ppmtompeg
> Package Xwd: /usr/bin/xwd
> Executing: /usr/lib/xcrysden/ftnunit
> X Error of failed request: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)
> Major opcode of failed request: 3
> ResourceID in failed request: 0xffffffff
> Serial number of failed request: 937
> X Error of failed request: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)
> Major opcode of failed request: 3
> ResourceID in failed request: 0xffffffff
> Serial number of failed request: 939
> Error in startup script:
> Couldn't configure togl widget
> while executing
> "togl .mesa -width 400 -height 400 -
> ident .mesa -rgba $toglOpt(rgba) -
> redsize $toglOpt(redsize..."
> (procedure "PlaceGlobWin" line 107)
> invoked from within
> "PlaceGlobWin 0 [expr round(670 * $fac1)] [expr round(670 *
> $fac1)]"
> (procedure "ViewMol" line 25)
> invoked from within
> "ViewMol ."
> invoked from within
> "if { [llength $argv] > 2 } {
> parseComLinArg [lrange $argv 2 end]
> } else {
> ViewMol .
> }"
> (file "/usr/share/xcrysden/Tcl/xcInit.tcl" line 633)
>
> The same error is shown if I launch the binary downloaded from
> http://www.xcrysden.org/Download.html:
>
> % pwd
> /home/viz/tmp/xcrysden-1.6.2-bin-shared
> % ./xcrysden
>
> +----------------------------------------------------------------
> -+
>
> |*****************************************************************|
> |*
> *|
> |* XCrySDen -- (X-Window) CRYstalline Structures and DENsities
> *|
> |* = === = ===
> *|
> |*---------------------------------------------------------------
> *|
> |*
> *|
> |* Anton Kokalj (tone.kokalj at ijs.si)
> *|
> |* Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia
> *|
> |*
> *|
> |* Copyright (c) 1996--2019 by Anton Kokalj
> *|
> |*
> *|
>
> |*****************************************************************|
> +----------------------------------------------------------------
> -+
>
> Version: 1.6.2
>
> Please report bugs to: tone.kokalj at ijs.si
>
>
> TERMS OF USE:
> -------------
> XCRYSDEN is released under the GNU General Public License.
>
> Whenever graphics generated by XCRYSDEN are used in scientific
> publications, it shall be greatly appreciated to include an
> explicit
> reference. The preferred form is the following:
>
> [ref] A. Kokalj, J. Mol. Graph. Model., Vol. 17, pp. 176-179,
> 1999.
> Code available from http://www.xcrysden.org/.
>
> XCRYSDEN_TOPDIR=/home/viz/tmp/xcrysden-1.6.2-bin-shared
> XCRYSDEN_SCRATCH=/tmp
>
> Running on platform : unix
> Operating system : Linux
> Package Ppmtompeg: /usr/bin/ppmtompeg
> Package Xwd: /usr/bin/xwd
> Executing: /home/viz/tmp/xcrysden-1.6.2-bin-shared/bin/ftnunit
> X Error of failed request: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)
> Major opcode of failed request: 3
> ResourceID in failed request: 0xffffffff
> Serial number of failed request: 933
> X Error of failed request: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)
> Major opcode of failed request: 3
> ResourceID in failed request: 0xffffffff
> Serial number of failed request: 935
> Error in startup script:
> Couldn't configure togl widget
> while executing
> "togl .mesa -width 400 -height 400 -
> ident .mesa -rgba $toglOpt(rgba) -
> redsize $toglOpt(redsize..."
> (procedure "PlaceGlobWin" line 107)
> invoked from within
> "PlaceGlobWin 0 [expr round(670 * $fac1)] [expr round(670 *
> $fac1)]"
> (procedure "ViewMol" line 25)
> invoked from within
> "ViewMol ."
> invoked from within
> "if { [llength $argv] > 2 } {
> parseComLinArg [lrange $argv 2 end]
> } else {
> ViewMol .
> }"
> (file "/home/viz/tmp/xcrysden-1.6.2-bin-
> shared/Tcl/xcInit.tcl" line 633)
>
> I'm using Xfce4 if it matters.
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: trixie/sid
> APT prefers unstable
> APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
>
> Kernel: Linux 6.12.13-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
> Kernel taint flags: TAINT_USER
> Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
> LANGUAGE not set
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
> Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
>
> Versions of packages xcrysden depends on:
> ii bwidget 1.10.1-1
> ii gawk 1:5.2.1-2+b1
> ii graphicsmagick-imagemagick-compat [imagemagick]
> 1.4+really1.3.45-1
> ii libc6 2.40-7
> ii libfftw3-double3 3.3.10-2+b1
> ii libgfortran5 14.2.0-17
> ii libgl1 1.7.0-1+b2
> ii libgl2ps1.4 1.4.2+dfsg1-2
> ii libglu1-mesa [libglu1] 9.0.2-1.1+b3
> ii libtcl8.6 8.6.16+dfsg-1
> ii libtk8.6 8.6.16-1
> ii libtogl2 2.0-3
> ii libx11-6 2:1.8.10-2
> ii openbabel 3.1.1+dfsg-11+b3
> ii xcrysden-data 1.6.2-4
>
> xcrysden recommends no packages.
>
> Versions of packages xcrysden suggests:
> pn gifsicle <none>
> pn mencoder <none>
> ii netpbm 2:11.09.02-2
> ii x11-apps 7.7+11+b1
>
> -- no debconf information
>
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