Bug 5994 - Fatal error on start
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 5955
Alias: None
Product: Dear Esther
Classification: Unclassified
Component: everything
Version: unspecified
Hardware: PC Linux
: P3 critical
Assignee: Ryan C. Gordon
QA Contact: Ryan C. Gordon
URL:
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2013-07-21 07:20 EDT by brendan
Modified: 2014-04-10 20:31:36 EDT
5 users (show)

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Description brendan 2013-07-21 07:20:34 EDT 
Fresh install of Mint Linux 15, 64bit.  NVidia drivers auto-detected and loaded on installation.  When trying to start game I see.


:~/dearesther$ ./Dear_Esther 
Dear Esther: Installed in '/home/brendan/dearesther'.
SDL video target is 'x11'
SDL video target is 'x11'
SDL video target is 'x11'

Failed to create GL context: Could not create GL context
Caper:~/dearesther$
Comment 1 Heiko Baums 2013-09-04 20:19:17 EDT 
Since you mention that you're using the 64 bit version of Linux Mint, have you installed a multilib environment, too? Dear Esther is only 32 bit and won't run on pure 64 bit systems.
Comment 2 omegamormegil 2013-09-25 19:25:56 EDT 
I'm getting the same error on 64-bit Ubuntu 12.04.3 but I already installed ia32-libs:

host:~/games/dearesther$ sudo apt-get install ia32-libs
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
ia32-libs is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
host:~/games/dearesther$ ./dearesther_linux 
SDL video target is 'x11'
SDL video target is 'x11'
SDL video target is 'x11'

Failed to create GL context: Could not create GL context


What else needs to be installed?
Comment 3 orawas 2013-11-28 16:35:11 EST 
I have the same issue. Ubuntu 12.04.3 64-bit with raring hardware enablement kernel installed.
Comment 4 J 2014-04-10 20:31:36 EDT 
The issue is that Dear Esther requires an OpenGL 3.2 context, which is only available for Ivy Bridge hardware (and upwards) and only since Mesa 10.0 (released Nov 2013, but not yet in all distributions).

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 5955 ***