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Whenever I try to run some programs under bumblebee with optirun they crash before displaying any window. I particularly try to run supermeatboy because it doesn't support intel cards, but with bumblebee it doesn't get even to displaying a window unlike the intel one and crashes prematurely. I've attached the xorg log. http://paste.pocoo.org/show/540542/

Thanks in advance, Nikita.

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Bumblebee 3.0 does not use Xorg.8.log or bumblebee.log anymore. Please attach /var/log/syslog instead. – Lekensteyn Jan 25 '12 at 15:59
added the syslog – vitiv Jan 25 '12 at 16:09

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Your setup looks fine. I guess that you are affected by issue 42: [VGL] ERROR: Could not open display :8 if a program forks and exits optirun.

This bug occurs when running an application with optirun which detaches. Workaround: open a shell and then run the program:

optirun bash
yourprogram
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Tried it. Now I get a "Segementation Fault" in console. This is the log: paste.pocoo.org/show/540555 – vitiv Jan 25 '12 at 16:22
What program are you trying to run? Do you get other errors in the console? If it's a 32-bit program, install the virtualgl-libs:i386 package. – Lekensteyn Jan 25 '12 at 16:35
As mentioned in the question it's supermeatboy. Apart from the segmentation fault nothing and virtualgl appear to be at the latest version – vitiv Jan 25 '12 at 16:45
Is there an entry in dmesg when the program segfaults? – Lekensteyn Jan 25 '12 at 17:01
This paste.pocoo.org/show/540581 – vitiv Jan 25 '12 at 17:10
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Do

optirun bash
sudo ./SuperMeatBoy

Using sudo helped me to avoid Segmentation fault

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This is wrong, sudo just makes optirun useless and omitting optirun has the same effect. – Lekensteyn Jul 6 '12 at 21:57

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