Re: x11/kitty: Failed to create GLFW temp window

On Sun Mar 5, 2023 at 12:14 PM EST, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> On 2023/03/05 09:26, Ariel Popper wrote:
> > Hello ports,
> >
> > I was on vacation for a few weeks and so didn't update my laptop's
> > snaps/packages for a while (Jan 26 to Feb 19). After updating kitty fails to start with
> > the following error:
> >
> > [064 09:05:05.716575] [glfw error 65544]: OpenGL version string
> > retrieval is broken
> > [064 09:05:05.722752] Failed to create GLFW temp window! This usually
> > happens because of old/broken OpenGL drivers. kitty requires working
> > OpenGL 3.3 drivers.
> >
> > I noticed that Mesa was updated in the meantime, but do not really know
> > enough to try and figure out what has changed. Also I am not sure what
> > information to include here that may be helpful, so I'll start with the
> > output of glxinfo(1) and a dmesg.
>
> Fails on intel as well. Upstream's only suggestions are to reboot or
> downgrade the GPU drivers (https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/issues/6007)
>
> kitty uses a vendored copy of "glfw", I tried applying some of upstream
> glfw commits touching context.c (the code responsible for this version
> check) to kitty's version but that didn't help either.
>
> Same with kitty 0.26.5 and 0.27.1 (the latter is tricky to handle in
> ports because it wants to download some go modules at build time).
>
> alacritty works FWIW.
>
> Unless someone has a good idea we should probably mark kitty broken
> for now I think.

That'd be a shame. I was finally getting it set up just the way I like
it. Last I looked at alacritty it was missing some features I liked, I
guess I'll give it another go.

Thank you Stuart.