after modifying the mathematica startup scripts it is clear that the
crash occurs in the gltest. mathematica uses it to test the capabilities
of the GL subsystem. the original command line is
env
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/mathematica-9.0.1/SystemFiles/Libraries/Linux-x86-64
SHLIB_PATH=/opt/mathematica-9.0.1/SystemFiles/Libraries/Linux-x86-64
LIBPATH=/opt/mathematica-9.0.1/SystemFiles/Libraries/Linux-x86-64
/opt/mathematica-9.0.1/SystemFiles/FrontEnd/Binaries/Linux-x86-64/gltest
1 1 1 2 2>/dev/null | grep "GLTest_OK"
ie the crash occurs even before the mathematica frontend is started.
after commenting this test out, the frontend starts normally.
unfortunately, the xserver crashes when the frontend is exited, so this
is not a real workaround.
i modified the test command-line above to
env
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/mathematica-9.0.1/SystemFiles/Libraries/Linux-x86-64
SHLIB_PATH=/opt/mathematica-9.0.1/SystemFiles/Libraries/Linux-x86-64
LIBPATH=/opt/mathematica-9.0.1/SystemFiles/Libraries/Linux-x86-64 strace
-o gltest.strace.1
/opt/mathematica-9.0.1/SystemFiles/FrontEnd/Binaries/Linux-x86-64/gltest
1 1 1 2 2>/dev/null | grep "GLTest_OK"
to get the strace output which is in the attachment. the crash occurs
right after the exit, but the gltest executable output
XIO: fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server ":0.0"
after 28 requests (28 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
GLTest_OK
while having some io errors, reports that the gl test is ok.
** Attachment added: "strace of the "gltest" executable"
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg/+bug/1256561/+attachment/3921241/+files/gltest.strace.1
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