OpenGL not running on WSL2

Question

I am trying to get PyBullet to work on my WSL2 installation of Ubuntu 22.04 with an Nvidia GTX 1050Ti. When I run p.connect(p.GUI), the execution fails with the following output:

startThreads creating 1 threads.
starting thread 0
started thread 0
argc=2
argv[0] = --unused
argv[1] = --start_demo_name=Physics Server
ExampleBrowserThreadFunc started
X11 functions dynamically loaded using dlopen/dlsym OK!
X11 functions dynamically loaded using dlopen/dlsym OK!
libGL error: MESA-LOADER: failed to open swrast: /home/dkapur17/anaconda3/envs/drl/lib/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.30' not found (required by /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libLLVM-15.so.1) (search paths /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri:\$${ORIGIN}/dri:/usr/lib/dri, suffix _dri)
libGL error: failed to load driver: swrast
Creating context
Failed to create GL 3.3 context ... using old-style GLX context
Failed to create an OpenGL context

Following is the output of glxinfo -B:

name of display: :0
display: :0  screen: 0
direct rendering: Yes
Extended renderer info (GLX_MESA_query_renderer):
    Vendor: Microsoft Corporation (0xffffffff)
    Device: D3D12 (NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti) (0xffffffff)
    Version: 23.0.4
    Accelerated: yes
    Video memory: 12132MB
    Unified memory: no
    Preferred profile: core (0x1)
    Max core profile version: 4.2
    Max compat profile version: 4.2
    Max GLES1 profile version: 1.1
    Max GLES[23] profile version: 3.1
OpenGL vendor string: Microsoft Corporation
OpenGL renderer string: D3D12 (NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti)
OpenGL core profile version string: 4.2 (Core Profile) Mesa 23.0.4-0ubuntu1~22.04.1
OpenGL core profile shading language version string: 4.20
OpenGL core profile context flags: (none)
OpenGL core profile profile mask: core profile

OpenGL version string: 4.2 (Compatibility Profile) Mesa 23.0.4-0ubuntu1~22.04.1
OpenGL shading language version string: 4.20
OpenGL context flags: (none)
OpenGL profile mask: compatibility profile

OpenGL ES profile version string: OpenGL ES 3.1 Mesa 23.0.4-0ubuntu1~22.04.1
OpenGL ES profile shading language version string: OpenGL ES GLSL ES 3.10

Programs like glxgears, gedit, and gimp all work.

Can you provide more detail on how you have installed PyBullet? On Ubuntu 22.04, Python 3.10 is the default, and from what I can tell, PyBullet only has wheels built for up to Python 3.9. Did you "downgrade" (perhaps `pyenv`) your Python to 3.9? Or did you build PyBullet yourself? Thanks! — NotTheDr01ds, Aug 14 '23 at 12:17
@NotTheDr01ds I installed `gym_pybullet_drones` by cloning the GitHub Repo and running `pip install -e .`, and that installed `pybullet 3.2.5` as a dependency. You are right, my current python environment is using Python 3.10.11. — dkapur17, Aug 14 '23 at 15:36
When you did `pip install -e .`, are you sure that it didn't download the PyBullet tarball and build the wheel from that? That's what it's attempting to do in my case (even with that repo). — NotTheDr01ds, Aug 14 '23 at 18:45

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 15 '23 at 11:06

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Solved! Turns out it was a dependency issue, and had nothing to do with WSL. I installed the required dependencies using

conda install -c conda-forge libgcc=5.2.0
conda install -c anaconda libstdcxx-ng
conda install -c conda-forge gcc=12.1.0

And PyBullet started launching as expected.

answered Aug 15 '23 at 11:06

dkapur17

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Ah, I suspected you might be using Anaconda rather than stock Python. That's why I wasn't able to get it built (on 22.04, at least) to reproduce ;-). Deleting my answer ... – NotTheDr01ds Aug 15 '23 at 19:32

OpenGL not running on WSL2

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