rviz segmentation fault at launch

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I had a similar issue (segfault at start-up). After deleting my personal configuration files in ~/.rviz i got it to work.

There was a bug earlier caused by doing this, but it is marked as fixed now. Warning: You do lose your topic subscriptions and window settings by doing this though.

Hi all,

I spent a load of time fixing these issues. What I realised is that Virtualbox is being a nasty little rascal with it's 3d Acceleration.

Switching if off fixed these issues for me.

1. Switch off your VM
2. Just go to the VM Settings -> Display -> Uncheck Enable 3D Acceleration.
3. Start your VM again.
4. Rejoice!

I just got this problem as well. I use 10.4 and electric:

user@ubuntu:~/.rviz$ rosrun rviz rviz
[ INFO] [1321935622.778521758]: rviz revision number 1.6.6
[ INFO] [1321935622.778786716]: ogre_tools revision number 1.6.2
[ INFO] [1321935622.778826499]: compiled against OGRE version 1.7.3 (Cthugha)
[ INFO] [1321935622.887818975]: Loading general config from [/home/user/.rviz/config]
[ INFO] [1321935622.888264749]: Loading display config from [/home/user/.rviz/display_config]
[ INFO] [1321935622.966972423]: RTT Preferred Mode is PBuffer.
[ INFO] [1321935623.281105694]: Texture for pass 0: creating with size 1 x 1
Segmentation fault

I tried to remove lines in display_config - it didn't help. I removed both configs - got same results. Few times I had different error which actually did come up here as well:

user@ubuntu:~/.rviz$ rosrun rviz rviz -d 'rospack find turtlebot_interactive_markers'/config/interactive_markers.vcg 
[ INFO] [1321935611.525499608]: rviz revision number 1.6.6
[ INFO] [1321935611.525703015]: ogre_tools revision number 1.6.2
[ INFO] [1321935611.525739543]: compiled against OGRE version 1.7.3 (Cthugha)
[ INFO] [1321935611.639785830]: Loading general config from [/home/user/.rviz/config]
[ INFO] [1321935611.640200506]: Loading display config from [/home/user/.rviz/display_config]
[ INFO] [1321935611.700409981]: RTT Preferred Mode is PBuffer.
The program 'rviz' received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadDrawable (invalid Pixmap or Window parameter)'.
  (Details: serial 21 error_code 9 request_code 55 minor_code 0)
  (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 --sync command line
   option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
   backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)

Any ideas (other than remove files)? Thanks.

I get the same error (running Ubuntu 10.4, electric), but with the following added when I try to run rviz a second time:

The program 'rviz' received an X Window System error. This probably reflects a bug in the program. The error was 'BadDrawable (invalid Pixmap or Window parameter)'. (Details: serial 22 error_code 9 request_code 136 minor_code 3) (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 --sync command line option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)

Daniel, thanks! I did exactly that (deleted everything in ~/.rviz) and it worked.

sudo apt-get remove --purge xserver-xorg

sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg

sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

And then: sudo reboot

This solution work for me