Until about a month or so ago, I was running Blender 2.42a in Fedora Core 5 and doing just fine. Then I upgraded to Fedora Core 6. The same version of Blender was available as an optional package, so I had it installed. That was wonderful, until it started going nuts. I have no idea what causes this; older versions of Blender seem to work just fine. Here’s what’s happening to me:
Blender sometimes logs me out. It just quits every program without saving my data. It doesn’t crash, there’s no delay, my processor/memory monitor doesn’t show anything funny, and Blender doesn’t report any errors… it just takes me to the login screen. This happens when I use extrude -> region on certain things. I haven’t yet figured out what sort of things cause this, but it does seem to be repeatable:
Start Blender.
In top view, add a cone (32 verts).
In side view, use Knife Cut -> Midpoints to slice the cone horizontally.
Select the newly created vertices, move them up 0.5 units, and scale them to 0.5.
Select the bottom vertices and use Extrude -> Region. I am immediately logged off.
Blender also sometimes randomly logs out while I look around in a 3D view. Holding down the scroll button and moving the mouse to look around for too long (as in, 10-15 seconds) will do the trick. It will occasionally also do log out in the middle of a render (Blender Internal or YafRay).
This does not seem to have anything to do with other programs I’m running; it happens even when Blender is the only thing I’ve got running. I didn’t notice the problem until after installing the latest version of YafRay, though I doubt there’s a connection. I’ve done some Google searches and looked around some forums, but I can’t find anything about this.
So then, is this a common problem? Or is it just my system? Is there a fix? Or should I wait for the next version of Blender and/or Fedora and hope it works better? Is this post even in the right forum? I’d appreciate any help you guys could give me; I miss Blender.
My system is:
Fedora Core 6.0.0; i386
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What about trying to download Blender from Blender.org manually by going there yourself and clicking the link to download it ?
The package manager (yum for Fedora) compiles a different version of Blender to the one downloaded from Blender.org like for example, no FFMPEG if downloaded through Yum.
Sounds really a system problem. I cannot imagine how Blender could result log off…
Or do you mean by log off that X gets killed? and then comes login screen?
It happened to me last night, Blender 2.42a on Debian Etch. Every time I tried to use the MMB to constrain a direction while modelling, X would restart. I didn’t have time to investigate beyond repeating the problem.
Well, after trying out a few versions of Blender, it seems to be a problem with the dynamic builds only. All the static ones work very very slowly, but do not cause problems. Unfortunately, they work too slowly to be useful.
X Window System Version 7.1.1
Release Date: 12 May 2006
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 7.1.1
Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.9-34.ELsmp i686 Red Hat, Inc.
Current Operating System: Linux 2.6.19-1.2911.fc6 #1 SMP Sat Feb 10 15:51:47 EST 2007 i686
Build Date: 29 January 2007
Build ID: xorg-x11-server 1.1.1-47.5.fc6
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