eog "failed to create drawable"

[Per Ångström]

After upgrading from Ubuntu 10.10 to 11.04, I find that I can no longer run eog: it displays the requested image and then exits after a few seconds; the following is printed to the console:

 failed to create drawable
(eog:15986): Clutter-CRITICAL **: Unable to initialize Clutter: Unable to select the newly created GLX context
(eog:15986): Clutter-WARNING **: Unable to create a new stage: the glx backend does not support multiple stages.
(eog:15986): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid (NULL) pointer instance
(eog:15986): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_signal_connect_data: assertion `G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE (instance)' failed
failed to create drawable
(eog:15986): Clutter-CRITICAL **: Unable to make the stage window 0x5400015 the current GLX drawable
(eog:15986): Clutter-CRITICAL **: clutter_container_add_actor: assertion `CLUTTER_IS_CONTAINER (container)' failed
(eog:15986): Clutter-CRITICAL **: clutter_stage_set_color: assertion `CLUTTER_IS_STAGE (stage)' failed
The program 'eog' 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 1234 error_code 9 request_code 14 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.)

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: eog 2.32.1-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-15.59-generic 2.6.38.8
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-15-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu May 17 19:38:29 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100429)
SourcePackage: eog
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2012-04-23 (24 days ago)

[Per Ångström (autark)]

I should add that nouveau, version 1:0.0.16+git20110107+b795ca6e-0ubuntu7, is my graphics driver.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report, I don't know what you are doing but eog doesn't use clutter in Ubuntu so your are using something not supported there

[Per Ångström (autark)]

OK, I uninstalled eog-plugins, and eog doesn't exit. So the culprit must be in a plugin.

[Per Ångström (autark)]

By selectively disabling different plugins, I find that it's the Map plugin that causes the clutter problem. Well I never got Map to work, so good riddance!

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.