libEGL with an Nvidia driver may produce a crash at Scilab exit
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Reported by Clement DAVID (See also: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=788319
BUG DESCRIPTION:
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EGL is not supported by the NVIDIA binary driver. This may lead to crash at Scilab exit.
ERROR LOG:
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None or crash during the atexit calls.
HOW TO REPRODUCE THE BUG:
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With the NVIDIA binary driver, on Fedora 19 x86_64 (or OpenSuse, Ubuntu, ... ) and a Scilab binary version.
$ bin/scilab
-->plot3d()
-->exit(0)
=> Crash at exit
OTHER INFORMATION:
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To workaround this issue, the user may force EGL to use a GLX backend using:
$ EGL_DRIVER=egl_glx bin/scilab
[EGL]: http://www.mesa3d.org/egl.html
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