SH3D Crashed in Ubuntu 11.04 Natty

[appalbarry]

I'm running 11.04 (natty) on a Dell Inspiron system. SWH3D crasshed reaptedly until I:

a) Removed the proprietary AMD drivers.
b) Installed libgl1-mesa-swx11

It now will start up OK, and will do some things, but if I try to open the preference menu it crashes immediately.

Barry

[Puybaret]

Please read the FAQ Sweet Home 3D crashes when I want to edit preferences, print, create a photo or create a video. What can I do?

[hansmex]

Barry,

The problem definitely doesn't lie with Ubuntu. I'm running SH3D on a Ubuntu computer for several years without problems.

Check your video drivers. They're the most likely source of the problem. If possible, try a 100% standard installation of Ubuntu. That's what works best for me.

Hans

[appalbarry]

Weeeelllll, the section of the FAQ titled "Sweet Home 3D crashes when I want to edit preferences, print, create a photo or create a video. What can I do?" says:

Click on this link to launch a version of Sweet Home 3D which avoids this test and disables the features depending on offscreen 3D images.

Unfortunately the link doesn't do anything but open a Java download page, claiming I guess that Chrome isn't java enabled. Which seems highly unlikely cause every other page in the Internet works fine.

Can anyone point me to a link that doesn't require java to open?

[Puybaret]

How did you install Sweet Home 3D?

[appalbarry]

OK, initially downloaded the TGZ files from here and expanded the folder; ran the program via the SweetHome3D shell script in the SH3D folder.

That obviously didn't work for me, so I nuked that folder, and the downloaded TGZs, and installed via the Ubuntu Software Centre. That install refuses to even show a splash screen.

Uninstalled that, and I'm now re-downloading the TGZ files and giving them another go.

First up the 64 bit version: I choose RUN or RUN IN TERMINAL - nothing happens. (I've got a dual core 64 bit AMD box)

[hansmex]

Did you check your video drivers?
I also suggest you uninstall all kinds of Java on your computer.

[Puybaret]

Once you downloaded and expanded the tgz file, please edit the SweetHom3D script and at the last line, replace:

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-Xmx1024m

by:

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-Xmx1024m -Dcom.eteks.sweethome3d.j3d.checkOffScreenSupport=false

This will have the same effect as the JNLP file available in the FAQ I previously mentioned.

[appalbarry]

For whatever reason, the 64 bit version didn't work, but the 32 bit one does after adding the above mentioned line to the script and everything seems to work fine!

[appalbarry]

Aha! Turns out I'm running 32 bit Ubuntu - duh...
Reinstalled the AMD drivers, and the program once again crashes.