Re: [Evolution] evolution crashes when using X11 forwarding

[Hans-Georg Beyer <Hans-Georg Beyer fhv at>]

Hi Thomas,

Thank you for your proposal. 
Playing around with the nv glx stuff might be dangerous
in that it could break my remote machine (and due to 
covid19 I'm not allowed to visit my office personally).
That is why I would rather abstain from tying that.

Best,

Hans-Georg

Am Donnerstag, den 19.03.2020, 12:13 +0100 schrieb tmstaedt@t-
mittelstaedt.de:
> Just did a Google search with the error message, maybe that helps:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/67567/how-to-fix-error-xlib-extension-nv-glx-missing-on-display
> ..... Installed "mesa-vulkan-drivers" and the error was
> fixed! – Torrien Oct 4 '18 at 5:01
>
>
>
> Gruß, Thomas Mittelstaedt
>
> Am 19.03.2020 11:34 schrieb Hans-Georg Beyer <Hans-Georg Beyer fhv at
> > :
> > Hi, 
> >
> > other gnome apps do work via X11 forwarding (e.g., gedit). 
> >
> > When starting evolution remotely via X11 forwarding 
> > I obtain the following messages (note, some years ago, 
> > I used evolution remotely without any problems): 
> >
> > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
> > %% 
> >
> > hgb@HGB-PC2:~$ evolution 
> > Xlib:  extension "NV-GLX" missing on display "localhost:10.0". 
> > Xlib:  extension "NV-GLX" missing on display "localhost:10.0". 
> > Xlib:  extension "NV-GLX" missing on display "localhost:10.0". 
> > Xlib:  extension "NV-GLX" missing on display "localhost:10.0". 
> > libEGL warning: DRI3: failed to query the version 
> > libEGL warning: DRI2: failed to authenticate 
> >
> > (evolution:26725): Gdk-ERROR **: The program 'evolution' received
> > an X 
> > Window System error. 
> > This probably reflects a bug in the program. 
> > The error was 'BadRequest (invalid request code or no such
> > operation)'. 
> >   (Details: serial 189 error_code 1 request_code 154 (unknown) 
> > minor_code 1) 
> >   (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported
> > asynchronously; 
> >    that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it. 
> >    To debug your program, run it with the GDK_SYNCHRONIZE
> > environment 
> >    variable to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful 
> >    backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() 
> > function.) 
> > Trace/breakpoint trap (core dumped) 
> >
> > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
> > %% 
> >
> > If this problem cannot be solved easily, I would be even
> > satisfied, 
> > if evolution would fetch my emails without GUI (however, this must 
> > be done remotely on the remote Linux machine). 
> > To this end, I tried on the remote machine: 
> >
> > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
> > %% 
> >
> > hgb@HGB-PC2:~$ xvfb-run evolution 
> >
> > (evolution:26703): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_strsplit: assertion 'string
> > != 
> > NULL' failed 
> > Segmentation fault (core dumped) 
> >
> > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
> > %% 
> >
> > Any help would be appreciated. 
> >
> > Best, 
> >
> > Hans-Georg 
> >
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