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OpenGL: ~~ERROR~~ NullPointerException: null

Quote from Abithstine

Do you have any specific mods installed and have you force updated?

Edit: Ok. Never mind. It's not modded, but have your force updated?

Quote from FnordianLoopRespawn

well that's your biggest clue... check your OpenGL setup..

Quote from Tedster

Please could you post your full specs?

Quote from leonblade7

Intel Atom Processor N270 (1.6GHz, 512K cache, 533MHz FSB) processor, 1GB of DDR2 memory, 160GB 5400RPM Hard Drive, Integrated Intel Media Accelerator graphics

The 'glxinfo' command can give you details of the OpenGL capabilities of your hardware.

The output of the 'dmesg' command will quite often contain most of the information you want.

lshw -list  hardware information
lscpu -list  cpu info
lspci -list  pci devices info

Quote from qtpriest

oh geeze thats well.. lets just say minecraft has minimun system requirements as well. i wish there was a way to get a dxdiag from you on a linux system but i cant seem to figure a way to tell you how to do it. but in anycase it might be just that your current system cant run minecraft =(.

Quote from qtpriest

have you tried running in terminal glxinfo? there is a problem with your video card. if its not installed you need to have that minecraft requires GLX be installed in order to play. update your drivers

Quote from qtpriest

try at your own risk best and easiest thing i could find for you. this will give you or well should give you openGL / GLX

all you have to do is install the following things in your linux distro
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install freeglut3
sudo apt-get install freeglut3-dev
sudo apt-get install binutils-gold
glxinfo

Quote from leonblade7

With sudo apt-get update I got this:

W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems
[email protected] ~ $ apt-get update
E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/apt/lists/lock - open (13: Permission denied)
E: Unable to lock directory /var/lib/apt/lists/
E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (13: Permission denied)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), are you root?
And with the other commands (excluding glxinfo) I got this:

No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
Errors were encountered while processing:
mint-configuration-kde
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

WTF is this? It has NEVER done this before especially with Synaptic Package Manager. Recently it has been saying mint-configuration-kde and it wouldn't install the program I selected. Is there a way to fix it or a way around it?

Quote from qtpriest

from what i see it looks like theres a connection problem with your apt-get and somewhere in ther i think i seen it say youre not admin.. good thin is tho it doesnt look like its changed anything. it just threw up on you. but beyond that i cant give any more help. youd have to find documentation on it somewhere. the commands i gave you are what get you GXL open GL. you can find them online as well.. .. whats interesting with your error. is you say you sudo apt-get then you get returned with
W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems
[email protected] ~ $ apt-get update

i lold all that does is update the store so you can get the most up to date files when you run apt-get for the other files. usually you have to do these as root but like i said before use at your own risk only because im sure we all know what its like working as a root user. im not sure why your apt-get isnt working right or it cant connect.

Quote from Haim123creeper

guys help i got this

---- Minecraft Crash Report ----
// I'm sorry, Dave.

Time: 2/1/14 11:09 PM
Description: Failed to start game

java.lang.NullPointerException
at net.minecraft.client.gui.FontRenderer.getFontTexturePack(FontRenderer.java:1144)
at net.minecraft.client.gui.FontRenderer.func_98306_d(FontRenderer.java:222)
at net.minecraft.client.gui.FontRenderer.func_98304_a(FontRenderer.java:150)
at net.minecraft.client.gui.FontRenderer.<init>(FontRenderer.java:112)
at net.minecraft.client.Minecraft.func_71384_a(Minecraft.java:407)
at net.minecraft.client.MinecraftAppletImpl.func_71384_a(SourceFile:56)
at net.minecraft.client.Minecraft.run(Minecraft.java:732)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)


A detailed walkthrough of the error, its code path and all known details is as follows:
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-- System Details --
Details:
Minecraft Version: 1.5.2
Operating System: Windows 7 (x86) version 6.1
Java Version: 1.7.0_10, Oracle Corporation
Java VM Version: Java HotSpot™ Client VM (mixed mode, sharing), Oracle Corporation
Memory: 351187832 bytes (334 MB) / 518979584 bytes (494 MB) up to 518979584 bytes (494 MB)
JVM Flags: 3 total; -Xms512m -Xmx512m -XX:HeapDumpPath=MojangTricksIntelDriversForPerformance_javaw.exe_minecraft.exe.heapdump
AABB Pool Size: 0 (0 bytes; 0 MB) allocated, 0 (0 bytes; 0 MB) used
Suspicious classes: FML and Forge are installed
IntCache: cache: 0, tcache: 0, allocated: 0, tallocated: 0
FML:
LWJGL: 2.4.2
OpenGL: Intel® HD Graphics Family GL version 3.0.0 - Build 8.15.10.2291, Intel
Is Modded: Definitely; Client brand changed to 'fml,forge'
Type: Client (map_client.txt)
Texture Pack: Default
Profiler Position: N/A (disabled)
Vec3 Pool Size: ~~ERROR~~ NullPointerException: null

Quote from qtpriest

please update your java installation and then get a proper forge installation for 1.5.2 (links provided) also you may want to run minecraft with more than 512 MB of ram try 1024MB.. this section if for unmodified minecraft clients yyou could try the modded section or even going to the forge forums and seeing if they know if this doesnt work for you. atleast try to start minecraft without forge to see if that works as well before doing anything.

modded clients: http://www.minecraft...client-support/
forge forums: http://www.minecraftforge.net/forum/

java: https://www.java.com/en/
forge mod loader installer: http://files.minecra...dex_legacy.html