PCBnew crashing - allocating video memory for cached container: out of memory

[Gadi Lahav]

Hello

When I first installed the stable KiCAD 5.0 (using the Ubuntu installation instructions) it worked fine and stable. For some reason when I try to use either PCBnew or the footprint editor, I immediately get the message

Error:allocating video memory for cached container: out of memory

I am using a PC with a (relatively) old AMD graphics card, running ubuntu 14.04.

Here is the version info

Application: kicad
Version: 5.0.0-fee4fd1~66~ubuntu14.04.1, release build
Libraries:
    wxWidgets 3.0.2
    libcurl/7.35.0 OpenSSL/1.0.1f zlib/1.2.8 libidn/1.28 librtmp/2.3
Platform: Linux 3.16.0-77-generic x86_64, 64 bit, Little endian, wxGTK
Build Info:
    wxWidgets: 3.0.2 (wchar_t,wx containers,compatible with 2.8) GTK+ 2.24
    Boost: 1.54.0
    OpenCASCADE Community Edition: 6.8.0
    Curl: 7.35.0
    Compiler: GCC 4.8.4 with C++ ABI 1002

Build settings:
    USE_WX_GRAPHICS_CONTEXT=OFF
    USE_WX_OVERLAY=OFF
    KICAD_SCRIPTING=ON
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_MODULES=ON
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON=OFF
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_ACTION_MENU=ON
    BUILD_GITHUB_PLUGIN=ON
    KICAD_USE_OCE=ON
    KICAD_USE_OCC=OFF
    KICAD_SPICE=ON

Please advise how should I proceed

[Seth Hillbrand (sethh)]

Can you provide the output of the command

lspci -vvnn

[Gadi Lahav (glahav)]

Sure

Attacehd

[Seth Hillbrand (sethh)]

I've finally located a very old model intel and amd cards to see if I can track down some of these issues.

In the meantime, for this I think we'll just allow it to fall back semi-gracefully to Cairo.

[Gadi Lahav (glahav)]

I purged the software and most of it's pre-requisites, re-installed.
Now everything is working for some reason (I feel ashamed for trying this now).

If it will crash again in the same way, I'll re-open.

Cheers

[Maciej Suminski (orsonmmz)]

Gadi, I am glad that you have managed to resolve your problem. There is no reason to be ashamed.

Computers/video cards do not have infinite memory, so one can always find a design that is complex enough to require more memory than available on the system. Our role is to prevent crash in such case, so the bug stays valid.

[KiCad Janitor (kicad-janitor)]

Fixed in revision fe30460aeb916483e9b1ce871031b43732c910cd
https://git.launchpad.net/kicad/patch/?id=fe30460aeb916483e9b1ce871031b43732c910cd