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chronosynclastic
chronosynclastic

Reputation: 1675

Meshlab doesn't start due to failed GLEW initalization

On Ubuntu 16.04, I compiled MeshLab from the source (as described here). When I then try to run the created binary, I get the error message:

terminate called after throwing an instance of 'MLException'
  what():  MLSceneGLSharedDataContext: GLEW initialization failed

Aborted (core dumped)

Interestingly, I get the same error message when I run a Snap of Meshlab that I installed by sudo snap install meshlab.

I checked my GLEW libraries and they seem to be in place under /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGLEW.so. How can I detect where the error actually lies? Running the MeshLab binary with gdb didn't help me any further.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 4691

Answers (1)

chronosynclastic
chronosynclastic

Reputation: 1675

Running dmesg showed me that I had a driver mismatch; I removed and re-installed the Nvidia drivers and after a reboot the problem disappeared. Both the compiled Meshlab and the Ubuntu snap are working fine now. The problem wasn't related to GLEW libraries.

Upvotes: 2

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