Problems with matlab R2016b on debian

Hello, I am experiencing problems with matlab on my workstation. As far I understand it is related to the interaction with the nvidia drivers and oepngl libraries.

System description

Drivers: 367.57

OS: Debian 8.6 jessie.

Problem Description Whenever I run matlab I get the following warning

com.jogamp.opengl.GLException: X11GLXDrawableFactory - Could not initialize shared resources for X11GraphicsDevice[type .x11, connection :0.0, unitID 0, handle 0x0, owner false, ResourceToolkitLock[obj 0x538d5506, isOwner false, <63c927c4, 2b51e80a>[count 0, qsz 0, owner <NULL>]]]
  at jogamp.opengl.x11.glx.X11GLXDrawableFactory$SharedResourceImplementation.createSharedResource(X11GLXDrawableFactory.java:326)
  at jogamp.opengl.SharedResourceRunner.run(SharedResourceRunner.java:297)
  at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
Caused by: com.jogamp.opengl.GLException: glXGetConfig(0x1) failed: error code Unknown error code 6
  at jogamp.opengl.x11.glx.X11GLXGraphicsConfiguration.glXGetConfig(X11GLXGraphicsConfiguration.java:570)
  at jogamp.opengl.x11.glx.X11GLXGraphicsConfiguration.XVisualInfo2GLCapabilities(X11GLXGraphicsConfiguration.java:500)
  at jogamp.opengl.x11.glx.X11GLXGraphicsConfigurationFactory.chooseGraphicsConfigurationXVisual(X11GLXGraphicsConfigurationFactory.java:434)
  at jogamp.opengl.x11.glx.X11GLXGraphicsConfigurationFactory.chooseGraphicsConfigurationStatic(X11GLXGraphicsConfigurationFactory.java:240)
  at jogamp.opengl.x11.glx.X11GLXDrawableFactory.createMutableSurfaceImpl(X11GLXDrawableFactory.java:524)
  at jogamp.opengl.x11.glx.X11GLXDrawableFactory.createDummySurfaceImpl(X11GLXDrawableFactory.java:535)
  at jogamp.opengl.x11.glx.X11GLXDrawableFactory$SharedResourceImplementation.createSharedResource(X11GLXDrawableFactory.java:283)

The command opengl info is completely empty

                            Version: ''
                             Vendor: ''
                           Renderer: 'None'
              RendererDriverVersion: ''
          RendererDriverReleaseDate: ''
                     MaxTextureSize: 0
                             Visual: ''
                           Software: 1
               HardwareSupportLevel: 'none'
          SupportsGraphicsSmoothing: 0
      SupportsDepthPeelTransparency: 0
         SupportsAlignVertexCenters: 0
                         Extensions: {}
                 MaxFrameBufferSize: 0

As a result, the plots look weird and the legend do not match the plot.

I have tried to use -softwareopengl as an option, but the only effect I obtain is that the message is hidden, but the figures are not displayed correctly.

[Sangeetha Jayaprakash]

Are you trying to start MATLAB remotely?

Which NVIDIA graphics card are you using?

[Mathis Fricke]

I have the same problem using Matlab R2016b under Ubuntu 14.04 with the Geforce GTX 960.A parallel installation of Matlab R2015a works fine.

[Zhuotun Zhu]

I have the same problem with MATLAB 2016b, Ubuntu 14.04, NVIDIA TiTan. How could it be solved? Thank you!

[Robert Mar]

Same OpenGL problem, MATLAB R2016b, Ubuntu 14.04, Nvidia GTX 980M, Nvidia 367.35 drivers.

[ECEdesigner]

I am having the same problem with Debian Jessie and a Nvidia GTX 1070 with the latest 367.35 drivers installed. Same output for opengl. MATLAB please help!

[Timo Kettunen]

Same warning when starting Matlab with Ubuntu 14.04 and TitanX, driver version 367.57. Applies to R2016a, R2016b, R2017a.

Luckily R2015b works OK! I would assume that fix or workaround would available by now.

[Miroslav Flídr]

The problem is caused in changes in NVIDIA drivers 361.xx and newer and MATLAB reliance on driver behavior outside stantard Linux OpenGL ABI. These changes are described here. I could solve the problem by downloading the NVIDIA driver installer, unpacking it using the --extract-only installer command line switch and then by replacing the installed libGL.so.1.0.0 library file with the libGL.so.$VERSION file from the unpacked installer (the file must be renamed to libGL.so.1.0.0).

[Murphy Stein]

I am having the same problem running ubuntu 14.04 LTS with 2017a. It also works fine for me running 2015b. I also have an nvidia graphics card.

[Timo Kettunen]

Problem solved by method suggested by Miroslav. Thanks! Quite a hack, though. This is clear MATLAB error, I hope they fixed in future releases.

[Cheng Zeng]

Miroslav's method also works for me. Thank you.

[Walter Roberson]

Cheng Zeng comments to Miroslav Flídr:

It works for me using this method, thank you. One thing to note is that the libGL.so.1.0.0 file is located in /usr/lib64/ folder.

[Dam-Be Douti]

Thanks Miroslav, your suggestion saved me also :-)

[Wei Wu]

I met the same problem. Miroslav Flídr's method and Walter Roberson's comment works for me. Thanks for your kind help!

Answer 1

[Tomasz Czaus]

I have similar issue running Debian GNU/Linux 8.8 (jessie) and vanilla kernel 4.4.70 with R2017a. NVidia driver installed as follows:

sudo NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-375.39.run --no-glvnd-egl-client --no-glvnd-glx-client

then lunch matlab:

$ ~/MATLAB/R2017a/bin/matlab MATLAB is selecting SOFTWARE OPENGL rendering. Bus error

Any ideas?

[Tomasz Czaus]

Update:

Some shared libraries under "~/MATLAB/R2017a/bin/glnxa64/" were corrupted i.e. "libmwvvir.so". After reinstallation MATLAB works.