[Pkg-telepathy-maintainers] Bug#704257: empathy / LTSP problems?

[Daniel Pocock]

On 03/04/13 16:50, Sébastien Ducoulombier wrote:
> We do not yet have access to an LTSP server running Wheezy.
> But I could run a test on a Wheezy server through X2Go
> (X2Go is another X thin client solution).
>
> Bad news : neither Empathy nor Emerillon work on Wheezy through X2Go.


Thanks for this feedback - your experience on wheezy looks a lot like
bug #704257 - I am sending your comments there as it appears to be the
same problem.


http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=704257


The release team have stated this is not a bug though, I'm not sure how
they intend this to work.  As a workaround, can you try installing the
missing mesa package (see bug details) and see if that fixes the error
for you?


>
> Empathy says :
>
> (empathy:105798): Clutter-CRITICAL **: Unable to initialize Clutter: Failed to connected to any renderer: 
> XServer appears to lack required GLX support
>
> (empathy:105798): empathy-CRITICAL **: main: assertion `gtk_clutter_init (&argc, &argv) == CLUTTER_INIT_SUCCESS' failed
>
>
> Emerillon says :
>
> Failed to connected to any renderer: 
> XServer appears to lack required GLX support
> Run 'emerillon --help' to see a list of available command line options.
>
>