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Cannot create GLX Context

See original GitHub issue

I’m exploring the many instances of this problem reported online (it originates in VTK), but for documentation’s sake:

After no modifications I’m aware of (no reboot, no apt-get upgrade, no rebuild), drake-visualizer and directorPython testMainWindowApp.py (and probably others) have stopped launching with error:

ERROR: In /build/buildd/vtk-5.8.0/Rendering/vtkXOpenGLRenderWindow.cxx, line 404
vtkXOpenGLRenderWindow (0x263af40): Could not find a decent visual


ERROR: In /build/buildd/vtk-5.8.0/Rendering/vtkXOpenGLRenderWindow.cxx, line 404
vtkXOpenGLRenderWindow (0x263af40): Could not find a decent visual


ERROR: In /build/buildd/vtk-5.8.0/Rendering/vtkXOpenGLRenderWindow.cxx, line 631
vtkXOpenGLRenderWindow (0x263af40): Cannot create GLX context.  Aborting.

Aborted (core dumped)

This has persisted after a clean rebuild (of spartan) and a reboot.

While I search and try stuff, any ideas?

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Created 6 years ago
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manuellicommented, Jun 12, 2017

I fixed this by setting the USE_SYSTEM_VTK=OFF option.

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gizattcommented, Mar 12, 2018

Right, but Director expects a certain vtk version (6 or 7, I think? see the director homepage) while your system might have another version installed. If you run director and it loads vtk dynamic libraries that are a different version than it director was built with, this problem might come up.

On Mar 11, 2018 20:48, “Ziwen Qin” notifications@github.com wrote:

Vtk no special requirements, like:

In general VTK tries to be as portable as possible; the specific configurations below are known to work and tested.

VTK supports the following C++11 compilers:

Microsoft Visual Studio 2013 or newer gcc 4.8.3 or newer Clang 3.3 or newer Apple Clang 5.0 (from Xcode 5.0) or newer Intel 14.0 or newer

VTK supports the following operating systems:

Windows Vista or newer Mac OS X 10.7 or newer Linux (ex: Ubuntu 12.04 or newer, Debian 4 or newer)

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