libGL error: No matching fbConfigs or visuals found | Glxgears error, Docker, CUDA, VirtualGL

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when I run glxgears, I get following error.

libGL error: No matching fbConfigs or visuals found
libGL error: failed to load driver: swrast
Error: couldn't get an RGB, Double-buffered visual

My system is ubuntu 16.04 as docker image - nvidia/cuda:8.0-runtime-ubuntu16.04.

The image contains VirtualGL and TurboVNC and its is started with the following parameters:

docker run --runtime=nvidia --privileged -d -v /tmp/.X11-unix/X0:/tmp/.X11-unix/X0 -e USE_DISPLAY="7" my_image

There is no problem if I change the base image to nvidia/cuda:10.2-runtime-ubuntu18.04. But an application for which this container is, needs CUDA 8.

I found some advice to remove library: sudo rm /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/mesa/libGL.so.1. But it does not work.

Ubuntu 16.04, CUDA 8:

user@host:/opt/noVNC$ sudo ldconfig -p | grep -i libGL.so
    libGL.so.1 (libc6,x86-64) => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/mesa/libGL.so.1
    libGL.so (libc6,x86-64) => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGL.so
    libGL.so (libc6,x86-64) => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/mesa/libGL.so
user@host:/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu$ ll libGL*
    lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      13 Jun 14  2018 libGL.so -> mesa/libGL.so
    lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      32 May 25 14:14 libGLESv1_CM_nvidia.so.1 -> libGLESv1_CM_nvidia.so.440.33.01
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   63696 Nov 12  2019 libGLESv1_CM_nvidia.so.440.33.01
    lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      29 May 25 14:14 libGLESv2_nvidia.so.2 -> libGLESv2_nvidia.so.440.33.01
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  111416 Nov 12  2019 libGLESv2_nvidia.so.440.33.01
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  911218 Oct 23  2015 libGLU.a
    lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      15 Oct 23  2015 libGLU.so -> libGLU.so.1.3.1
    lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      15 Oct 23  2015 libGLU.so.1 -> libGLU.so.1.3.1
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  453352 Oct 23  2015 libGLU.so.1.3.1
    lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      26 May 25 14:14 libGLX_indirect.so.0 -> libGLX_nvidia.so.440.33.01
    lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      26 May 25 14:14 libGLX_nvidia.so.0 -> libGLX_nvidia.so.440.33.01
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1114496 Nov 12  2019 libGLX_nvidia.so.440.33.01
user@host:/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu$ ll mesa
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root root     31 Jun 14  2018 ld.so.conf
    lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     14 Jun 14  2018 libGL.so -> libGL.so.1.2.0
    lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     14 Jun 14  2018 libGL.so.1 -> libGL.so.1.2.0
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 471680 Jun 14  2018 libGL.so.1.2.0

Ubuntu 18.04, CUDA 10:

user@host:/opt/noVNC$ sudo ldconfig -p | grep -i libGL.so
    libGL.so.1 (libc6,x86-64) => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGL.so.1
user@host:/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu$ ll libGL*
    lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      14 May 10  2019 libGL.so.1 -> libGL.so.1.0.0
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  567624 May 10  2019 libGL.so.1.0.0
    lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      32 May 20 16:43 libGLESv1_CM_nvidia.so.1 -> libGLESv1_CM_nvidia.so.440.33.01
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   63696 Nov 12  2019 libGLESv1_CM_nvidia.so.440.33.01
    lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      29 May 20 16:43 libGLESv2_nvidia.so.2 -> libGLESv2_nvidia.so.440.33.01
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  111416 Nov 12  2019 libGLESv2_nvidia.so.440.33.01
    lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      15 May 21  2016 libGLU.so.1 -> libGLU.so.1.3.1
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  453352 May 21  2016 libGLU.so.1.3.1
    lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      15 May 10  2019 libGLX.so.0 -> libGLX.so.0.0.0
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   68144 May 10  2019 libGLX.so.0.0.0
    lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      16 Feb 19 05:09 libGLX_indirect.so.0 -> libGLX_mesa.so.0
    lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      20 Feb 19 05:09 libGLX_mesa.so.0 -> libGLX_mesa.so.0.0.0
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  488344 Feb 19 05:09 libGLX_mesa.so.0.0.0
    lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      26 May 20 16:43 libGLX_nvidia.so.0 -> libGLX_nvidia.so.440.33.01
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1114496 Nov 12  2019 libGLX_nvidia.so.440.33.01
    lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      22 May 10  2019 libGLdispatch.so.0 -> libGLdispatch.so.0.0.0
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  612792 May 10  2019 libGLdispatch.so.0.0.0
user@host:/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu$ ll mesa
    ls: cannot access 'mesa': No such file or directory

The host has CUDA 10.2 but I do not know if it is required and can cause a problem.

I have no idea how to solve this problem.

Thank you for any advice.

questionto42 · Answer 1 · 2021-03-28T14:57:33.233

The two errors also appear when Running ROS with GUI in Docker using Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL2).

The error libGL error: No matching fbConfigs or visuals found can be fixed with:

export LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT=1

The error libGL error: failed to load driver: swrast can be fixed with:

sudo apt-get install -y mesa-utils libgl1-mesa-glx

Probably irrelevant side-note:

For "the ROS with GUI on Docker guide" to run, you also have to install dbus.

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y dbus

I do not think this is relevant here, since you will see the two errors in question only after having installed dbus, but I do not know the background of the question, perhaps it helps. Installing dbus would get rid of the error D-Bus library appears to be incorrectly set up; failed to read machine uuid: Failed to open “/var/lib/dbus/machine-id”.

Would like to give +2. You solved two of the three problems I have, getting OpenGL work from Docker, in an unrelated project. — akauppi, Jul 26 '21 at 22:16

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered May 27 '20 at 12:27

The solution is to replace nvidia/cuda:8.0-runtime-ubuntu16.04 image with nvidia/opengl:1.0-glvnd-runtime-ubuntu16.04 and install CUDA 8 manually.

CUDA 8 installation: https://gitlab.com/nvidia/container-images/cuda/-/blob/ubuntu16.04/8.0/runtime/Dockerfile

Do not forget to add display to nvidia capabilities var:

ENV NVIDIA_DRIVER_CAPABILITIES compute,utility,display

https://hub.docker.com/r/nvidia/opengl

Nujufas · Answer 3 · 2023-01-21T12:59:18.563

I had similar errors on a docker container(Ubuntu 18) on host(Ubuntu 22) with Nvidia. Here is what I did:

Step 1 (On the host machine): #Install nvidia-container-toolkit

curl -s -L https://nvidia.github.io/nvidia-docker/gpgkey | apt-key add -
curl -s -L https://nvidia.github.io/nvidia-docker/ubuntu22.04/nvidia-docker.list > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/nvidia-docker.list
apt update
apt -y install nvidia-container-toolkit
systemctl restart docker

#Test

docker run --gpus all nvidia/cuda:11.5.2-base-ubuntu20.04 nvidia-smi

#If you find issues with the test, restart your host machine.

Step 2 (Running docker) #Run with flags NVIDIA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=all -e NVIDIA_DRIVER_CAPABILITIES=all --gpus all

#In my case:

docker run -e NVIDIA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=all -e NVIDIA_DRIVER_CAPABILITIES=all  --gpus all -v /tmp/.X11-unix:/tmp/.X11-unix -e DISPLAY myimage

Step 3 (If you are using vscode devcontainer)

#Provide the following in the runargs in devcontainer.json :

"runArgs": [
    "-e","DISPLAY=:1",
    "-e","NVIDIA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=all",
    "-e","NVIDIA_DRIVER_CAPABILITIES=all",
    "--gpus","all",
    "--runtime=nvidia",
]

#In the mounts section of decontainer.json:

"mounts": [
    "source=/tmp/.X11-unix,target=/tmp/.X11-unix,type=bind",
],

Sometimes you may also be need to mount dbus on the container, then mount it with volume mount "source=/var/run/dbus,target=/var/run/dbus,type=bind" — Nujufas, Jan 21 '23 at 13:01

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