Subject: Re: Alacritty doesn't start.

From: Efraim Flashner <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2021 15:08:25 +0300

On Mon, Jul 19, 2021 at 05:34:55AM -0400, Raghav Gururajan wrote:
> Hello Guix!
> 
> Upon running `alacritty` in terminal, I get the following error:
> 
> Xlib: sequence lost (0x1006f > 0x71) in reply type 0x0!
> Xlib: sequence lost (0x10074 > 0x76) in reply type 0x0!
> Xlib: sequence lost (0x10079 > 0x7b) in reply type 0x0!
> Xlib: sequence lost (0x1007e > 0x80) in reply type 0x0!
> Xlib: sequence lost (0x10083 > 0x85) in reply type 0x0!
> Created log file at "/tmp/Alacritty-27896.log"
> [2021-07-19 05:26:41.842621210] [ERROR] [alacritty] Alacritty encountered an
> unrecoverable error:
> 
>                                                         There was an error
> initializing the shaders: Failed compiling shader: 0:1(10): error: GLSL 3.30
> is not supported. Supported versions are: 1.10, 1.20, and 1.00 ES
> 

What GPU do you have? It's likely that if it's old enough it doesn't
support the GPU features that alacritty uses. It used to happen to me
with my old laptop.

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