Comment 21 for bug 289925

Okay, on my Jaunty AMD64 I cannot replicate the problem even when I switch to MESA software renderer (it doesn't occur with fglrx driver either). However, looking through the tracebacks posted, it seems pretty obvious that some configurations are failing when a call to glGetError happens before the GL has a context. There's nothing in the docs which says that should ever cause a failure (let alone a segfault), so it seems we're looking at a broken implementation issue.

We could work around it by disabling GLUT error checking entirely, but that seems a bit of a nuclear option, as it would change the API. Instead I'm thinking we'll disable error checking *just* for the GLUT functions commonly called before the GLUT context is created. I've checked in changes to bzr head to implement this. Please do the following and report whether the bug is fixed for you:

    bzr branch lp:pyopengl
    # add pyopengl/OpenGL to your PYTHONPATH

then run the test script.