libGL, Irrlicht errors & crash on Ubuntu Linux running legacy NVIDIA driver for a legacy GPU, caused by commit 1ec5028 (Set OpenGL preference to GLVND)

[juozaspo]

Issue type

• Bug report

Minetest version

Minetest 5.0.0-dev-debug-5a26e46a (Linux)
Using Irrlicht 1.8.4
BUILD_TYPE=Debug
RUN_IN_PLACE=1
USE_GETTEXT=1
USE_SOUND=1
USE_CURL=1
USE_FREETYPE=1
USE_LUAJIT=1
STATIC_SHAREDIR="."

OS / Hardware

Operating system: Ubuntu Linux 18.04.1 LTS (Codename bionic)
CPU: Pentium(R) Dual-Core CPU E6300 @ 2.80GHz

GPU model: NVIDIA GeForce 210, Driver version 340.106
OpenGL version: 3.3.0

Summary

Mintetest built including changes done by commit 1ec5028 fails with Irrlicht error Fatal error, could not get visual then crash with a Segmentation Fault error when run. Undoing changes done by 1ec5028 fixes this issue.
Full console output w/o any extra parameters:

juozas@xubuntu:~/minetest_dev$ ./bin/minetest 
libGL error: No matching fbConfigs or visuals found
libGL error: failed to load driver: swrast
2018-08-20 18:47:16: WARNING[Main]: Irrlicht: No doublebuffering available.
2018-08-20 18:47:16: ERROR[Main]: Irrlicht: Fatal error, could not get visual.
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

Verbose output captured earlier running minetest prebuilt with -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebInfo flag in the cmake command line:

juozas@xubuntu:~/minetest_dev$ ./bin/minetest --verbose
2018-08-20 17:34:23: INFO[Main]: Using relative paths (RUN_IN_PLACE)
2018-08-20 17:34:23: INFO[Main]: Detected share path: /home/juozas/minetest_dev/bin/..
2018-08-20 17:34:23: INFO[Main]: Detected user path: /home/juozas/minetest_dev/bin/..
2018-08-20 17:34:23: INFO[Main]: Detected cache path: /home/juozas/minetest_dev/bin/../cache
2018-08-20 17:34:23: INFO[Main]: Using locale directory locale
2018-08-20 17:34:23: INFO[Main]: minetest with SER_FMT_VER_HIGHEST_READ=28, BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebInfo
2018-08-20 17:34:23: INFO[Main]: RUN_IN_PLACE=1
2018-08-20 17:34:23: INFO[Main]: USE_GETTEXT=1
2018-08-20 17:34:23: INFO[Main]: USE_SOUND=1
2018-08-20 17:34:23: INFO[Main]: USE_CURL=1
2018-08-20 17:34:23: INFO[Main]: USE_FREETYPE=1
2018-08-20 17:34:23: INFO[Main]: USE_LUAJIT=1
2018-08-20 17:34:23: INFO[Main]: STATIC_SHAREDIR="."
2018-08-20 17:34:23: VERBOSE[Main]: log_filename = /home/juozas/minetest_dev/bin/../debug.txt
2018-08-20 17:34:23: VERBOSE[Main]: httpfetch_init: parallel_limit=8
2018-08-20 17:34:23: INFO[Main]: Message locale is now set to: LC_CTYPE=lt_LT.UTF-8;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=lt_LT.UTF-8;LC_COLLATE=lt_LT.UTF-8;LC_MONETARY=lt_LT.UTF-8;LC_MESSAGES=lt_LT.UTF-8;LC_PAPER=lt_LT.UTF-8;LC_NAME=lt_LT.UTF-8;LC_ADDRESS=lt_LT.UTF-8;LC_TELEPHONE=lt_LT.UTF-8;LC_MEASUREME
2018-08-20 17:34:23: INFO[Main]: NT=lt_LT.UTF-8;LC_IDENTIFICATION=lt_LT.UTF-8
2018-08-20 17:34:23: VERBOSE[Main]: Determining world path
2018-08-20 17:34:23: INFO[Main]: Searching worlds...
2018-08-20 17:34:23: INFO[Main]:   In /home/juozas/minetest_dev/bin/../worlds: 
2018-08-20 17:34:23: INFO[Main]: Flat Worldedit Test World 9 World 7 Carpathian Valleys Test1 World 3 World 6 Test12345678901 World 11 World 10 World 2 World 8 Fractal World 1 World 4 Test minimal TestWorld 1 World 5 minimal2 
2018-08-20 17:34:23: INFO[Main]: 22 found.
2018-08-20 17:34:23: INFO[Main]: Creating default world at [/home/juozas/minetest_dev/bin/../worlds/world]
2018-08-20 17:34:23: VERBOSE[Main]: Determining gameid/gamespec
2018-08-20 17:34:23: INFO[Main]: Using default gameid [minetest]
2018-08-20 17:34:23: INFO[Main]: Using commanded world path [/home/juozas/minetest_dev/bin/../worlds/world]
2018-08-20 17:34:23: INFO[Main]: Audio: Global Initialized: OpenAL 1.1 ALSOFT 1.18.2, using OpenAL Soft
2018-08-20 17:34:23: INFO[Main]: Irrlicht: Irrlicht Engine version 1.8.4
2018-08-20 17:34:23: INFO[Main]: Irrlicht: Linux 4.15.0-32-generic #35-Ubuntu SMP Fri Aug 10 17:58:07 UTC 2018 x86_64
libGL error: No matching fbConfigs or visuals found
libGL error: failed to load driver: swrast
2018-08-20 17:34:23: WARNING[Main]: Irrlicht: No doublebuffering available.
2018-08-20 17:34:23: ERROR[Main]: Irrlicht: Fatal error, could not get visual.
Segmentavimo klaida (core dumped)

Steps to reproduce

1. Get latest commit (5a26e46) using git
2. Install all required dependencies including CMake 3.10.2, gcc/g++ 7.3.0
3. (optional) Create similar hardware configuration (with GeForce 210 as video card), install latest available nvidia drivers
4. Run cmake . -DRUN_IN_PLACE=TRUE -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug -DENABLE_GETTEXT=TRUE to get configuration like above
5. Run make -j $(nproc)
6. Run ./bin/minetest and see how it crash

[SmallJoker]

Kind of a duplicate. #7655 (comment)