EGL: Failed to initialize EGL: EGL is not or could not be initialized #2583
Description
Habitat-Sim version
v3.0.0
I am trying to install Habitat and I want to test it and I get this error. How to fix it? The nvidia drivers are installed and I am using GTX 4090. The openGl is working as:
(habitat) shiven@LBJ:~/habitat-sim$ glxinfo | grep "OpenGL version"
OpenGL version string: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 575.64.03
(habitat) shiven@LBJ:~/habitat-sim$ nvidia-smi
Tue Aug 19 14:25:03 2025
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 575.64.03 Driver Version: 575.64.03 CUDA Version: 12.9 |
|-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+
| GPU Name Persistence-M | Bus-Id Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan Temp Perf Pwr:Usage/Cap | Memory-Usage | GPU-Util Compute M. |
| | | MIG M. |
|=========================================+========================+======================|
| 0 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Off | 00000000:01:00.0 On | Off |
| 0% 47C P8 23W / 500W | 1588MiB / 24564MiB | 48% Default |
| | | N/A |
+-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+
| 1 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Off | 00000000:02:00.0 Off | Off |
| 0% 40C P8 14W / 500W | 17MiB / 24564MiB | 0% Default |
| | | N/A |
+-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes: |
| GPU GI CI PID Type Process name GPU Memory |
| ID ID Usage |
|=========================================================================================|
| 0 N/A N/A 1972 G /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg 810MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 2225 G /usr/bin/gnome-shell 82MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 2685 G ...bin/snapd-desktop-integration 12MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 2999 G ...ess --variations-seed-version 30MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 7866 G .../6565/usr/lib/firefox/firefox 438MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 831958 G /proc/self/exe 47MiB |
| 1 N/A N/A 1972 G /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg 4MiB |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
but I get this error:
(habitat) shiven@LBJ:~/habitat-sim$ python examples/viewer.py --dataset data/replica_cad/replicaCAD.scene_dataset_config.json --scene apt_1
libEGL warning: MESA-LOADER: failed to open nouveau: /usr/lib/dri/nouveau_dri.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory (search paths /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri:\$${ORIGIN}/dri:/usr/lib/dri, suffix _dri)
libEGL warning: DRI2: failed to authenticate
libEGL warning: MESA-LOADER: failed to open swrast: /usr/lib/dri/swrast_dri.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory (search paths /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri:\$${ORIGIN}/dri:/usr/lib/dri, suffix _dri)
EGL: Failed to initialize EGL: EGL is not or could not be initialized
Platform::GlfwApplication::tryCreate(): cannot create a window with core OpenGL context, falling back to compatibility context
libEGL warning: MESA-LOADER: failed to open nouveau: /usr/lib/dri/nouveau_dri.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory (search paths /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri:\$${ORIGIN}/dri:/usr/lib/dri, suffix _dri)
libEGL warning: DRI2: failed to authenticate
libEGL warning: MESA-LOADER: failed to open swrast: /usr/lib/dri/swrast_dri.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory (search paths /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri:\$${ORIGIN}/dri:/usr/lib/dri, suffix _dri)
EGL: Failed to initialize EGL: EGL is not or could not be initialized
Platform::GlfwApplication::tryCreate(): cannot create a window with OpenGL context