Alacritty fails to launch

4xx Client Error 417 Expectation Failed
#1

log

$ alacritty 
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!
Xlib: sequence lost (0x10088 > 0x8a) in reply type 0x0!
Xlib: sequence lost (0x1008d > 0x8f) in reply type 0x0!
Created log file at "/tmp/Alacritty-3974.log"
[2021-01-30 07:47:06.187744464] [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
#2

This looks like your graphics cards is too old? :thinking:

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#3

Please read wiki, reporting bugs.
post also the error log

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#4

I'm running it under Virtualbox...

Unable to build java-openjdk-ea-bin
#5

As explicitly written on the Downloads page:

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#6

Oh well that explains a lot. Wiki even mentions that Alacritty wont launch in Virtualbox iirc :wink:

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