Icy crashing in Ubunutu when 3d used (VTK problem?)

[alastair-JL]

Hey, Just trying out the elevation plugin and find it to be crashing icy pretty hard (no output etc). Seems similar to what is described here:
#638

Tested Icy with the standard 3d VTK option (for stack viewing I think) and got similar crash.
My current version of Icy is 1.8.6.0 and my current java version is 8. I'm running on Ubuntu 16.10. Seems like something you've already run into, but also like something that was sorted in 1.8 so... perhaps I've missed something?
Thanks heaps,
Babblefish

[Stephane-D]

Hi alastair,

Thanks for the report ! We didn't tested yet on Ubuntu 16 but it was working on previous version (14 and 15) so i don't any good reasons why it shouldn't on this one. Do you any error log file in the Icy folder ? That could help us in understanding the issue. Thanks !

[alastair-JL]

I do not see any Error log in the Icy folder (unless its in a subfolder I haven't seen). As far as I can tell you just hit any option requiring 3d, and ICY either pauses a moment and then quits, or freezes completely.
Also, have realised since posting this that Linux/VTK thing is mentioned in the FAQ (didn't find this in previous searches, sorry). Have installed, twiddled with the path, still not working, no change ... hmmm... This is looking more and more like an issue of me not setting things up properly, as opposed to a bug in ICY. Any advice obviously appreciated, but suspect I should probably go away and read up.

[Stephane-D]

In fact using VTK in Icy on Linux is a bit trickier than with other operating system, now we are providing some binaries for Linux but they does work on some distributions only. we tested on Ubuntu but on an older version... Crashes as you describe happen unfortunately quite a lot with VTK, it can be a problem with the video card driver not supporting correctly OpenGL2 API, or just a problem with the binary format of the library. If you want to recompile VTK yourself, be sure to replace the existing binaries in the lib/vtk/unix* folder of Icy :)

[ismaelgv]

I tried some time ago to run Icy with VTK on ArchLinux and I had many problems. You may want to distribute a flatpak or a snap package instead of a raw binary. You would avoid all those issues with library versions and different Linux distributions. Both package distribution platforms are supported by all major Linux distributions. Just my two cents.