2.43 crashes when extruding a face on the X axis

Hello all,

First of all, I am a new user to Blender. While my own PC was ‘down’ (I messed up my udevd), I did some tutorials from the ‘Noob to Pro’ wikibook on my mom’s Windows machine. I like it and had hope to use it on Linux too, but Blender keeps crashing on me.

The problem: every time when I try to extrude a face on the X axis, Blender crashes my X-server. My system is a Core 2 Duo E6300, 1 GB DDR-400 RAM, nVidia 7300GS 256 MB DDR-RAM, one PATA 160GB HDD and one SATA 160GB HDD. I believe this should be enough for Blender. Also, my CPU core & video card temperatures never get over 50 C, which ought to be cool enough. I have tried some torture tests, but it all holds very well - it is not the hardware that is at fault.

I run Gentoo AMD64. To install Blender, I downloaded the archive from blender.org, unpacked it to /usr/local/blender, and tried to run it. It was missing a library, which I searched for and found on my system; after I put it in /usr/local/blender, blender worked, but crashes occasionally without any visible reason, and it always crashes when I try to extrude over the X axis, and it crashes sometimes when I do other things with the X axis too, like restricting movement to or scaling on the X axis. :confused:

Is there anyone who has a clue as to what it could be? I do not have the problem on my mother’s Windows machine. Is Blender the occasional application that simply won’t work on Linux? I would be sad to hear it, as I have heard many a positive thing about it.

Thanks in advance,
Yours, Alkibiades

Try 2.44.RC1.
I have a bug like this with 2.43 but on all axis extruding or making faces.
This was a very big bug… at my workplace (when I use Blender for 8 hours) this does crash in every 15 minutes…
2.44.RC1 seems good.

I can’t - I am on Gentoo AMD64, and it won’t compile with 64 bits and gives an error when I try to do it in the 32 bit mode; blender seems to depend on the x86 variable length, and, of course, gcc tries to use the full length for my Core 2 Duo, which results in a compile error.

I think this is a weird dependency, but oh, well. I hear 2.44 is scheduled to work on AMD64; maybe I should just wait for a month or two? I would not like that, though.

Yours, Alkibiades