From: Simon Etter (ettersi_at_student.ethz.ch)
Date: Tue Mar 11 2014 - 10:21:07 CDT

Hi John

Did as you told me:

$ glxgears
X Error of failed request: BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)
   Major opcode of failed request: 154 (GLX)
   Minor opcode of failed request: 3 (X_GLXCreateContext)
   Serial number of failed request: 21
   Current serial number in output stream: 23

On 11/03/14 16:10, John Stone wrote:
> Hi,
> What X server are you running on your remote machine?
> It would seem from the messages below that your X server has some issues
> with support for GLX protocol (remote OpenGL). Can you run 'glxgears'
> remotely on the same setup?
>
> Cheers,
> John Stone
> vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
>
> On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 01:31:17PM +0100, Simon Etter wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> I have a remote compute server on which I would like to run VMD and stream
>> the GUI to my local screen. Every time I start the application, it crashes
>> with the following error report:
>>
>> Info) VMD for LINUXAMD64, version 1.9.1 (February 1, 2012)
>> Info) http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/
>> Info) Email questions and bug reports to vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
>> Info) Please include this reference in published work using VMD:
>> Info) Humphrey, W., Dalke, A. and Schulten, K., `VMD - Visual
>> Info) Molecular Dynamics', J. Molec. Graphics 1996, 14.1, 33-38.
>> Info) -------------------------------------------------------------
>> Info) Multithreading available, 48 CPUs detected.
>> Info) Free system memory: 102376MB (79%)
>> Warning) Detected a mismatch between CUDA runtime and GPU driver
>> Warning) Check to make sure that GPU drivers are up to date.
>> Info) No CUDA accelerator devices available.
>> Warning) Detected X11 'Composite' extension: if incorrect display occurs
>> Warning) try disabling this optional X server feature.
>> XRequest.154: BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation) 0x17
>> XRequest.154: GLXBadContext 0x3800001
>> Segmentation fault
>>
>> I heard from other users of the same server that they did not have any
>> problems, so I assume this must be an issue on my local machine.
>>
>> Any hint on how I could fix this?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Simon
>>
>> --------------
>> Further points:
>>
>> I connect to the server using ssh -X.
>> Opening remote xterm and gnuplot windows works.
>> Local X windows version: 1.13.0
>