application dies with 'VMware: vmw_ioctl_command error Invalid argument.'

[Jack Stokes]

running stellarium in ubuntu 16.04 in a VMWare 12.1.1 virtual machine.
thanks.

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jstokes@ubuntu1604:~$ stellarium

** (stellarium:1768): WARNING **: Couldn't connect to accessibility bus: Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-6Rt5CAvHFy: Connection refused
 -------------------------------------------------------
[ This is Stellarium 0.14.3 - http://www.stellarium.org ]
[ Copyright (C) 2000-2016 Fabien Chereau et al. ]
 -------------------------------------------------------
Writing log file to: "/home/jstokes/.stellarium/log.txt"
File search paths:
  0 . "/home/jstokes/.stellarium"
  1 . "/usr/share/stellarium"
Config file is: "/home/jstokes/.stellarium/config.ini"
Detected: OpenGL "3.0"
Driver version string: "3.0 Mesa 11.2.0"
GL vendor is "VMware, Inc."
GL renderer is "Gallium 0.4 on SVGA3D; build: RELEASE; LLVM;"
GL Shading Language version is "1.30"
MESA Version Number detected: 11.2
Mesa version is fine, we should not see a graphics problem.
GLSL Version Number detected: 1.3
GLSL version is fine, we should not see a graphics problem.
Cache directory is: "/home/jstokes/.cache/stellarium/stellarium"
Sky language is "en_US"
Application language is "en_US"
Loading Solar System data ...
Loading star data ...
"Loading \"/usr/share/stellarium/stars/default/stars_0_0v0_5.cat\": 0_0v0_2; 4963"
"Loading \"/usr/share/stellarium/stars/default/stars_1_0v0_5.cat\": 1_0v0_2; 21598"
"Loading \"/usr/share/stellarium/stars/default/stars_2_0v0_5.cat\": 2_0v0_2; 150090"
"Loading \"/usr/share/stellarium/stars/default/stars_3_1v0_3.cat\": 3_1v0_3; 428466"
Finished loading star catalogue data, max_geodesic_level: 3
navigation/preset_sky_time is a double - treating as jday: "2451514.25001"
Reloading DSO data...
Loaded 10756 DSO records
Loading DSO name data ...
Loaded 221 / 297 DSO name records successfully
Loading star names from "/usr/share/stellarium/skycultures/western/star_names.fab"
Loaded 339 / 339 common star names
Loading star names from "/usr/share/stellarium/stars/default/name.fab"
Loaded 4506 / 4506 scientific star names
Loading variable stars from "/usr/share/stellarium/stars/default/gcvs_hip_part.dat"
Loaded 6916 / 6916 variable stars
Loading cross-index data from "/usr/share/stellarium/stars/default/cross-index.dat"
Loaded 108279 / 108279 cross-index data records
Loaded 88 / 88 constellation records successfully for culture "western"
Loaded 85 / 85 constellation art records successfully for culture "western"
Loaded 88 / 88 constellation names
Loading constellation boundary data ...
Loaded 782 constellation boundary segments
Initializing basic GL shaders...
Creating GUI ...
Loaded plugin "Exoplanets"
Exoplanets: version of the format of the catalog: 1
Exoplanets: loading catalog file: "/home/jstokes/.stellarium/modules/Exoplanets/exoplanets.json"
Loaded plugin "FOV"
Loaded plugin "MeteorShowers"
MeteorShowersMgr: Loading catalog file: "/home/jstokes/.stellarium/modules/MeteorShowers/showers.json"
Loaded plugin "Novae"
Novae: version of the catalog: 1
Novae: loading catalog file: "/home/jstokes/.stellarium/modules/Novae/novae.json"
Loaded plugin "Oculars"
Ocular plugin - press Command-O to toggle eyepiece view mode. Press ALT-o for configuration.
Oculars::validateIniFile ocular.ini exists at: "/home/jstokes/.stellarium/modules/Oculars/ocular.ini" . Checking version...
Oculars::validateIniFile found existing ini file version 3
Loaded plugin "Satellites"
Satellites: loading catalog file: "/home/jstokes/.stellarium/modules/Satellites/satellites.json"
Satellite has invalid orbit: "FLOCK 1B-27" "40422"
Satellite has invalid orbit: "FLOCK 1B-22" "40428"
Satellite has invalid orbit: "FLOCK 1B-10" "40429"
Satellite has invalid orbit: "FLOCK 1B-5" "40453"
Satellite has invalid orbit: "FLOCK 1B-6" "40454"
Satellite has invalid orbit: "FLOCK 1B-12" "40460"
Loaded plugin "SolarSystemEditor"
Using the ssystem.ini file that already exists in the user directory...
Unable to find module called "TimeZoneConfiguration"
Loaded plugin "TimeZoneConfiguration"
VMware: vmw_ioctl_command error Invalid argument.
Aborted (core dumped)

[Jack Stokes (jcstokes)]

this is the console listing.

[Alexander Wolf (alexwolf)]

Line "VMware: vmw_ioctl_command error Invalid argument." say that you have problem in MESA. Just try run glxgears through CLI.

[Jack Stokes (jcstokes)]

ran glxgears. seemed to run fine. console output was:

jstokes@ubuntu1604:~$ glxgears
3798 frames in 5.0 seconds = 759.550 FPS
4412 frames in 5.0 seconds = 882.319 FPS
3956 frames in 5.0 seconds = 791.117 FPS
4788 frames in 5.0 seconds = 957.499 FPS
4162 frames in 5.0 seconds = 832.201 FPS
4237 frames in 5.0 seconds = 847.175 FPS
3968 frames in 5.0 seconds = 793.466 FPS
4559 frames in 5.0 seconds = 911.780 FPS
3651 frames in 5.0 seconds = 730.083 FPS
4633 frames in 5.0 seconds = 926.422 FPS
4094 frames in 5.0 seconds = 818.712 FPS
4506 frames in 5.0 seconds = 901.122 FPS
^C
jstokes@ubuntu1604:~$

does this help at all?

On 5/2/2016 1:02 PM, Alexander Wolf wrote:
> Line "VMware: vmw_ioctl_command error Invalid argument." say that you
> have problem in MESA. Just try run glxgears through CLI.
>

[Jack Stokes (jcstokes)]

here's some additional data -
ran stellarium to dump opengl data:

thanks.
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jstokes@ubuntu1604:~$ stellarium --dump-opengl-details

** (stellarium:2229): WARNING **: Couldn't connect to accessibility bus:
Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-NnTQDAM129: Connection refused
  -------------------------------------------------------
[ This is Stellarium 0.14.3 - http://www.stellarium.org ]
[ Copyright (C) 2000-2016 Fabien Chereau et al. ]
  -------------------------------------------------------
Writing log file to: "/home/jstokes/.stellarium/log.txt"
File search paths:
   0 . "/home/jstokes/.stellarium"
   1 . "/usr/share/stellarium"
Config file is: "/home/jstokes/.stellarium/config.ini"
Detected: OpenGL "3.0"
Driver version string: "3.0 Mesa 11.2.0"
GL vendor is "VMware, Inc."
GL renderer is "Gallium 0.4 on SVGA3D; build: RELEASE; LLVM;"
GL Shading Language version is "1.30"
initializeOpenGLFunctions()...
OpenGL Features:
  - glActiveTexture() function is available.
  - Shader functions are available.
  - Vertex and index buffer functions are available.
  - Framebuffer object functions are available.
  - glBlendColor() is available.
  - glBlendEquation() is available.
  - glBlendEquationSeparate() is available.
  - glBlendFuncSeparate() is available.
  - Blend subtract mode is available.
  - Compressed texture functions are available.
  - glSampleCoverage() function is available.
  - Separate stencil functions are available.
  - Non power of two textures are available.
  - Non power of two textures can use GL_REPEAT as wrap parameter.
  - The fixed function pipeline is available.
OpenGL shader capabilities and details:
  - Vertex Shader: YES
  - Fragment Shader: YES
  - Geometry Shader: NO
  - TessellationControl Shader: NO
  - TessellationEvaluation Shader: NO
  - Compute Shader: NO
We have 183 OpenGL extensions:
  - "GL_AMD_conservative_depth"
  - "GL_AMD_shader_trinary_minmax"
  - "GL_ANGLE_texture_compression_dxt3"
  - "GL_ANGLE_texture_compression_dxt5"
  - "GL_APPLE_packed_pixels"
  - "GL_APPLE_vertex_array_object"
  - "GL_ARB_ES2_compatibility"
  - "GL_ARB_ES3_compatibility"
  - "GL_ARB_arrays_of_arrays"
  - "GL_ARB_blend_func_extended"
  - "GL_ARB_clear_buffer_object"
  - "GL_ARB_color_buffer_float"
  - "GL_ARB_compressed_texture_pixel_storage"
  - "GL_ARB_conservative_depth"
  - "GL_ARB_copy_buffer"
  - "GL_ARB_debug_output"
  - "GL_ARB_depth_buffer_float"
  - "GL_ARB_depth_clamp"
  - "GL_ARB_depth_texture"
  - "GL_ARB_draw_buffers"
  - "GL_ARB_draw_elements_base_vertex"
  - "GL_ARB_draw_instanced"
  - "GL_ARB_explicit_attrib_location"
  - "GL_ARB_explicit_uniform_location"
  - "GL_ARB_fragment_coord_conventions"
  - "GL_ARB_fragment_program"
  - "GL_ARB_fragment_program_shadow"
  - "GL_ARB_fragment_shader"
  - "GL_ARB_framebuffer_object"
  - "GL_ARB_framebuffer_sRGB"
  - "GL_ARB_get_program_binary"
  - "GL_ARB_get_texture_sub_image"
  - "GL_ARB_half_float_pixel"
  - "GL_ARB_half_float_vertex"
  - "GL_ARB_instanced_arrays"
  - "GL_ARB_internalformat_query"
  - "GL_ARB_invalidate_subdata"
  - "GL_ARB_map_buffer_alignment"
  - "GL_ARB_map_buffer_range"
  - "GL_ARB...

[Alexander Wolf (alexwolf)]

Can you install debug edition of Stellarium from our nightly PPA and run it via gdb?

[TimDupont (tim-dupont)]

Gazebo crashes with the same error message. (Clean Ubuntu 16.04 and ROS Kinetic Kame install in VMware Fusion Professional Version 8.1.1 (3771013) )

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Peter Pan (f2008922)]

Blender, Ubuntu 16.04 package (or the original from blender.org)
frequently crashes in the VMware 12.1.1 with the same error message:

VMware: vmw_ioctl_command error Invalid argument.

see also https://communities.vmware.com/thread/537924?start=0&tstart=0

[Peter Pan (f2008922)]

The kernel log error after the crash:
[ 7522.003251] [drm:vmw_execbuf_process [vmwgfx]] *ERROR* Invalid SVGA3D command: 1181

and an another similar issue:
http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/unity-editor-5-4-0b18-crashes-in-ubuntu-16-04-after-start.409570/

[Peter Pan (f2008922)]

apt-file search vmwgfx

libdrm-dev: /usr/include/libdrm/vmwgfx_drm.h
libgl1-mesa-dri: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/vmwgfx_dri.so
...

[Lindsay (fmouse)]

I'm seeing the same error when trying to open a contact in the Evolution groupware suite. The full error is:

openjdk version "1.8.0_91"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_91-8u91-b14-3ubuntu1~16.04.1-b14)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.91-b14, mixed mode)
VMware: vmw_ioctl_command error Invalid argument.
Aborted

Looks like a Java error from this perspective. I don't exactly know where to report this, here, VMware or OpenJDK.

[Hugo Rodde (roddehugo)]

I had the same issue trying to use Gazebo along with ROS.

My solution was to downgrade OpenGL from 3.3 to 2.1 as written here: http://www.mesa3d.org/vmware-guest.html

Info:
* Ubuntu 14.04
* VMware Fusion 8

[quote]
OpenGL 3.3 support can be disabled by setting the environment variable SVGA_VGPU10=0. You will then have OpenGL 2.1 support. This may be useful to work around application bugs (such as incorrect use of the OpenGL 3.x core profile).
[/quote]

So do the following:
$ echo "export SVGA_VGPU10=0" >> ~/.bashrc

[gzotti (georg-zotti)]

Can somebody with a VM confirm this is a solution for Stellarium?

[Slava (pisarevsky-v)]

Hugo Roddes solutions works for me.

Thanks!

Info:

Ubuntu 16.04
VMware Fusion 8.5.3

[Slava (pisarevsky-v)]

Sorry, I have just spotted that this thread is for Stellarium but I run Gazebo simulator and encountered the same issue. The solution fixed the issue for me with Gazebo.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Lindsay (fmouse)]

Good Morning.

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[Oibaf (oibaf)]

Not a blender issue, but a mesa issue.

[Oibaf (oibaf)]

The used Ubuntu version (16.04) is obsolete, also mesa was updated (from 11.2.0 as per report to 18.0.5-0ubuntu0~16.04.1 in 2018), can you check if the problem is still reproducible with the newer mesa or on a newer Ubuntu?