@Daniel -- I'm pretty sure OpenGL isn't a problem here. It was probably just in the middle of painting OpenGL when PortMIDI called exit() which terminated Mixxx. In particular this text: PortMidi call failed... PortMidi: `Invalid MIDI message Data' type ENTER... is straight out of the PortMIDI source right before a call to exit() and you can see in the trace for the PortMIDI thread that it has called exit() : Thread 11 (Thread 0xb0b53b40 (LWP 3945)): #0 0x00fc5e40 in ?? () from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libQtOpenGL.so.4 #1 0x033b62fb in __cxa_finalize () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 #2 0x00f76fc4 in ?? () from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libQtOpenGL.so.4 #3 0x01004a1d in _fini () from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libQtOpenGL.so.4 #4 0x00130ff4 in ?? () from /lib/ld-linux.so.2 #5 0x033b5f51 in ?? () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 #6 0x033b5fdd in exit () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 #7 0x0016593e in ?? () from /usr/lib/libportmidi.so.0 #8 0x0016599f in ?? () from /usr/lib/libportmidi.so.0 #9 0x00165f41 in Pm_WriteSysEx () from /usr/lib/libportmidi.so.0 #10 0x084339c0 in ?? () #11 0x08174668 in ?? () #12 0x084b98de in ?? () #13 0x084b9bf4 in ?? () #14 0x084bd7f3 in ?? () #15 0x084d4987 in ?? () #16 0x0032bc9d in QMetaObject::metacall(QObject*, QMetaObject::Call, int, void**) () from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libQtCore.so.4 #17 0x02d26f9f in ?? () from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libQtScript.so.4 #18 0x02d296b4 in ?? () from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libQtScript.so.4 #19 0x02d298e9 in ?? () from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libQtScript.so.4 #20 0x02c1f473 in ?? () from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libQtScript.so.4 #21 0x02bf3a7f in ?? () from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libQtScript.so.4 #22 0x078ab390 in ?? () #23 0x02baf457 in ?? () from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libQtScript.so.4 #24 0x02c4bb22 in ?? () from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libQtScript.so.4 #25 0x02c1f4d9 in ?? () from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libQtScript.so.4 #26 0x02d1403c in QScriptValue::call(QScriptValue const&, QList const&) () from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libQtScript.so.4 #27 0x0817ce68 in ?? () #28 0x081820d5 in ?? () #29 0x0817638e in ?? () #30 0x081b1ff9 in ?? () #31 0x0819105c in ?? () #32 0x084bcce1 in ?? () #33 0x00336c01 in QMetaCallEvent::placeMetaCall(QObject*) () from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libQtCore.so.4 #34 0x0033fc7b in QObject::event(QEvent*) () from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libQtCore.so.4 #35 0x005bfed4 in QApplicationPrivate::notify_helper(QObject*, QEvent*) () from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libQtGui.so.4 #36 0x005c530d in QApplication::notify(QObject*, QEvent*) () from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libQtGui.so.4 #37 0x0032497e in QCoreApplication::notifyInternal(QObject*, QEvent*) () from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libQtCore.so.4 #38 0x00328ad8 in QCoreApplicationPrivate::sendPostedEvents(QObject*, int, QThreadData*) () from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libQtCore.so.4 #39 0x00328e0c in QCoreApplication::sendPostedEvents(QObject*, int) () from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libQtCore.so.4 #40 0x00357494 in ?? () from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libQtCore.so.4 #41 0x036c8d86 in g_main_context_dispatch () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0 #42 0x036c9125 in ?? () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0 #43 0x036c9201 in g_main_context_iteration () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0 #44 0x00357887 in QEventDispatcherGlib::processEvents(QFlags) () from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libQtCore.so.4 #45 0x0032350d in QEventLoop::processEvents(QFlags) () from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libQtCore.so.4 #46 0x003237a9 in QEventLoop::exec(QFlags) () from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libQtCore.so.4 #47 0x0020c94c in QThread::exec() () from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libQtCore.so.4 #48 0x0020ca3b in QThread::run() () from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libQtCore.so.4 #49 0x0020fde0 in ?? () from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libQtCore.so.4 #50 0x03076d4c in start_thread () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 #51 0x03471d3e in clone () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6