glut stuck in glutCreateWindow() - help [WAS: Re: glut example executables: no window, no error, no exit]

[Anton Shterenlikht]

>From mexas Wed Mar 26 14:30:30 2014
>To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org, freebsd-x11 at freebsd.org
>Subject: glut example executables: no window, no error, no exit
>Reply-To: mexas at bris.ac.uk
>
>The graphics/freeglut example don't
>work on ia64 11-current. By that
>I mean that none of the examples
>seem to do anyting, e.g.
>
>$ /usr/local/share/examples/freeglut/callbackmaker
>
>sits doing nothing indefinitely:
>
>41596  0  I+       0:00.03 /usr/local/share/examples/freeglut/callbackmaker
>
>It neither exits, nor aborts with any error.
>No graphical window is open.
>
>I reported identical behaviour
>for all mesa-demos executables:
>
>http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-x11/2014-March/014395.html
>
>Can anybody please give a hint
>on what might be going on?
>
>These demos in themselves are of
>no interest to me. The real problem
>is that science/paraview shows very
>similar behaviour - doesn't open
>graphical window, doesn't exit,
>does't issue error. So I'm hoping
>to get to the bottom of this issue.
>
>There are quite a lot of libs these
>demos use:
>
>$ ldd /usr/local/share/examples/freeglut/callbackmaker
>/usr/local/share/examples/freeglut/callbackmaker:
>        libglut.so.12 => /usr/local/lib/libglut.so.12 (0x120090000)
>        libm.so.5 => /lib/libm.so.5 (0x12010a000)
>        libusbhid.so.4 => /usr/lib/libusbhid.so.4 (0x12018a000)
>        libGL.so.1 => /usr/local/lib/libGL.so.1 (0x1201a0000)
>        libXi.so.6 => /usr/local/lib/libXi.so.6 (0x12033e000)
>        libXrandr.so.2 => /usr/local/lib/libXrandr.so.2 (0x120370000)
>        libXrender.so.1 => /usr/local/lib/libXrender.so.1 (0x120394000)
>        libXxf86vm.so.1 => /usr/local/lib/libXxf86vm.so.1 (0x1203b8000)
>        libXext.so.6 => /usr/local/lib/libXext.so.6 (0x1203d2000)
>        libX11.so.6 => /usr/local/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x120406000)
>        libxcb.so.2 => /usr/local/lib/libxcb.so.2 (0x12061c000)
>        libXau.so.6 => /usr/local/lib/libXau.so.6 (0x12065c000)
>        libXdmcp.so.6 => /usr/local/lib/libXdmcp.so.6 (0x120670000)
>        libpthread-stubs.so.0 => /usr/local/lib/libpthread-stubs.so.0 (0x120688000)
>        librpcsvc.so.5 => /usr/lib/librpcsvc.so.5 (0x12069a000)
>        libc.so.7 => /lib/libc.so.7 (0x1206b8000)
>        libXdamage.so.1 => /usr/local/lib/libXdamage.so.1 (0x12099a000)
>        libXfixes.so.3 => /usr/local/lib/libXfixes.so.3 (0x1209ae000)
>        libX11-xcb.so.1 => /usr/local/lib/libX11-xcb.so.1 (0x1209c8000)
>        libxcb-glx.so.0 => /usr/local/lib/libxcb-glx.so.0 (0x1209da000)
>        libxcb-dri2.so.0 => /usr/local/lib/libxcb-dri2.so.0 (0x120a0a000)
>        libdrm.so.2 => /usr/local/lib/libdrm.so.2 (0x120a20000)
>        libthr.so.3 => /lib/libthr.so.3 (0x120a46000)
>
>and I've no idea where to start looking.
>
>Many thanks
>
>Anton
>
>

I've done some more debugging.
Specifically I tried to build this simple
opengl hello world code:
https://github.com/jckarter/hello-gl

Here's a fragment of the program:

/*
 * Entry point
 */
int main(int argc, char** argv)
{
    glutInit(&argc, argv);
    glutInitDisplayMode(GLUT_RGB | GLUT_DOUBLE);
    glutInitWindowSize(400, 300);

 fprintf(stderr, "chekpoint 1\n");
  glutCreateWindow("Hello World");
 fprintf(stderr, "chekpoint 2\n");

    glutIdleFunc(&update_fade_factor);
    glutDisplayFunc(&render);

    glewInit();
    if (!GLEW_VERSION_2_0) {
        fprintf(stderr, "OpenGL 2.0 not available\n");
        return 1;
    }

    if (!make_resources()) {
        fprintf(stderr, "Failed to load resources\n");
        return 1;
    }

    glutMainLoop();
    return 0;
}

Note I added 2 checkpoints.
When run, I get only to the first checkpoint:

$ ./hello-gl-dummy
chekpoint 1
^C
$

Then it gets stuck.

When run in gdb, I get:

TZAV> gdb ./hello-gl-dummy
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This GDB was configured as "ia64-marcel-freebsd"...
(gdb) run
Starting program: /tmp/hello-gl/hello-gl-dummy 
[New LWP 100089]
[New Thread 121404400 (LWP 100089/hello-gl-dummy)]
chekpoint 1

^C
Program received signal SIGINT, Interrupt.
[Switching to Thread 121404400 (LWP 100089/hello-gl-dummy)]
0x0000000120570880 in poll () from /lib/libc.so.7
(gdb) bt
#0  0x0000000120570880 in poll () from /lib/libc.so.7
#1  0x0000000000000000 in ?? ()
(gdb) 

Indicating that the program is stuck in poll(2).

Does this help find the root cause of the problem?

Thanks

Anton