Makie.jl: Build of GLMakie fails despite having a GPU card and drivers installed on Arch Linux

[DoktorMike]

The error is as follows

pkg> build GLMakie
   Building ModernGL → `~/.julia/packages/ModernGL/rVuW2/deps/build.log`
   Building GLMakie ─→ `~/.julia/packages/GLMakie/wpJsD/deps/build.log`
┌ Error: Error building `GLMakie`:
│ libGL error: MESA-LOADER: failed to open iris (search paths /usr/lib/dri)
│ libGL error: failed to load driver: iris
│ libGL error: MESA-LOADER: failed to open iris (search paths /usr/lib/dri)
│ libGL error: failed to load driver: iris
│ libGL error: MESA-LOADER: failed to open swrast (search paths /usr/lib/dri)
│ libGL error: failed to load driver: swrast
│ init error of GLFW
│ ERROR: LoadError: OpenGL/GLFW wasn't installed correctly. This likely means,
│ you don't have an OpenGL capable Graphic Card,
│ you don't have the newest video driver installed,
│ or the GLFW build failed. If you're on linux and `]build` GLFW failed,
│ try manually adding `sudo apt-get install libglfw3` and then `]build GLMakie`.
│ If you're on a headless server, you still need to install x-server and
│ proper GPU drivers. You can take inspiration from this article
│ on how to get Makie running on a headless system:
│ https://nextjournal.com/sdanisch/makie-1.0
│ If you don't have a GPU, there is also a Cairo software backend
│ for Makie which you can use:
│ https://github.com/JuliaPlots/CairoMakie.jl.
│ Please check the below error and open an issue at:
│ https://github.com/JuliaPlots/GLMakie.jl.
│ After you fixed your OpenGL install, please run `]build GLMakie` again!
│ GLMakie will still load, but will be disabled as a default backend for Makie
│
│ Stacktrace:
│  [1] error(::String) at ./error.jl:33
│  [2] top-level scope at /home/supersecret/.julia/packages/GLMakie/wpJsD/deps/build.jl:63
│  [3] include(::String) at ./client.jl:439
│  [4] top-level scope at none:5
│ in expression starting at /home/supersecret/.julia/packages/GLMakie/wpJsD/deps/build.jl:31
│ caused by [exception 1]
│ GLFWError (VERSION_UNAVAILABLE): GLX: Failed to create context: GLXBadFBConfig
│ Stacktrace:
│  [1] _ErrorCallbackWrapper(::Int32, ::Cstring) at /home/supersecret/.julia/packages/GLFW/g1nX6/src/callback.jl:43
│  [2] CreateWindow(::Int64, ::Int64, ::String, ::GLFW.Monitor, ::GLFW.Window) at /home/supersecret/.julia/packages/GLFW/g1nX6/src/glfw3.jl:487
│  [3] GLFW.Window(; name::String, resolution::Tuple{Int64,Int64}, debugging::Bool, major::Int64, minor::Int64, windowhints::Array{Tuple{UInt32,Int64},1}, contexthints::Array{Tuple{UInt32,Integer},1}, visible::Bool, focus::Bool, fullscreen::Bool, monitor::Nothing, share::GLFW.Window) at /home/supersecret/.julia/packages/GLFW/g1nX6/src/glfw3.jl:338
│  [4] top-level scope at /home/supersecret/.julia/packages/GLMakie/wpJsD/deps/build.jl:34
│  [5] include(::String) at ./client.jl:439
│  [6] top-level scope at none:5
└ @ Pkg.Operations /buildworker/worker/package_linux64/build/usr/share/julia/stdlib/v1.4/Pkg/src/Operations.jl:892

Julia version

Julia Version 1.4.1
Commit 381693d3df* (2020-04-14 17:20 UTC)
Platform Info:
  OS: Linux (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)
  CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8550U CPU @ 1.80GHz
  WORD_SIZE: 64
  LIBM: libopenlibm
  LLVM: libLLVM-8.0.1 (ORCJIT, skylake)
Environment:
  JULIA_EDITOR = nvim

GPU works

using CuArrays
cu(randn(10,10))
10×10 CuArray{Float32,2,Nothing}:
 -1.29028   -0.173954  -0.122509    0.612302   -0.00560228   1.86212    1.18256    -0.538791    1.52562     1.69545
  0.333288  -0.418066   0.520716    1.28106     1.0781       0.727451   0.872427    1.40712    -1.57114     2.28178
 -0.303821  -0.735051  -0.0820556   1.26057    -1.18827     -0.465157  -1.32857    -0.997585   -0.620837   -0.769065
 -0.610587   2.33636    0.241827    0.0653601   0.159754    -0.27624   -0.854466   -1.75802     0.4149      1.27193
 -0.272421   1.11754   -0.796252   -0.454884   -0.144527    -0.474672  -0.0879907   1.38329     0.0479331  -0.413288
  0.312627  -0.634729  -1.72213    -0.0300504  -0.346615    -0.639811   0.272099   -0.0753725   1.08136     0.706665
 -0.744879   0.401857  -0.923077   -0.970253   -0.0158947    0.438621   0.647026   -0.61923    -2.26012    -1.21236
  0.271685   0.332486   1.50899     1.01376    -0.516817     1.97097    1.0227      0.195126   -0.0302478   0.0127451
 -1.03196   -0.232076  -0.38786     0.291348    1.95004      0.816761  -0.911667    0.0458333   0.864825   -0.598791
  0.777597  -0.738238   0.11066    -0.229872   -0.203511     0.555229  -1.77667    -0.462367   -0.812875   -1.24531

System

                   -`                    michael@einstein
                  .o+`                   ----------------
                 `ooo/                   OS: Arch Linux x86_64
                `+oooo:                  Host: MACH-WX9 M15
               `+oooooo:                 Kernel: 5.6.11-arch1-1
               -+oooooo+:                Uptime: 3 hours, 33 mins
             `/:-:++oooo+:               Packages: 1508 (pacman)
            `/++++/+++++++:              Shell: zsh 5.8
           `/++++++++++++++:             Resolution: 3000x2000, 3840x2160, 3840x2160
          `/+++ooooooooooooo/`           WM: i3
         ./ooosssso++osssssso+`          Theme: Arc-Darker [GTK2/3]
        .oossssso-````/ossssss+`         Icons: Adwaita [GTK2/3]
       -osssssso.      :ssssssso.        Terminal: alacritty
      :osssssss/        osssso+++.       CPU: Intel i7-8550U (8) @ 4.000GHz
     /ossssssss/        +ssssooo/-       GPU: Intel UHD Graphics 620
   `/ossssso+/:-        -:/+osssso+-     GPU: NVIDIA GeForce MX150
  `+sso+:-`                 `.-/+oso:    Memory: 6092MiB / 15765MiB
 `++:.                           `-/+/
 .`                                 `/

My version of GLFW is Packages (1) glfw-x11-3.3.2-1

[pdimens]

I too am having this issue on Arch Linux, using X11 and having installed GLFW via pacman. I tried downgrading GLFW with ]add [email protected] as one user reported it working, but that did not work for my system (Intel 10th-gen with Iris graphics).

[lassepe]

FWIW: There seems to be a workaround https://github.com/JuliaPlots/Makie.jl/issues/486#issuecomment-670095965

[ambiso]

For those failing to use Makie because of this - you can also use the WebGL Makie backend inside, for example, Pluto.jl: https://github.com/fonsp/Pluto.jl/issues/155#issuecomment-669323378

[jdm204]

Have the same issue on Ubuntu 20.04.

[DaanVanHauwermeiren]

I had the same issue (exact same error) on my similar system and I was able to solve it.

System

██████████████████  ████████   daan@daan-latitude5401 
██████████████████  ████████   ---------------------- 
██████████████████  ████████   OS: Manjaro Linux x86_64 
██████████████████  ████████   Host: Latitude 5401 
████████            ████████   Kernel: 5.7.17-2-MANJARO 
████████  ████████  ████████   Uptime: 2 days, 4 hours, 8 mins 
████████  ████████  ████████   Packages: 1272 (pacman), 7 (snap) 
████████  ████████  ████████   Shell: bash 5.0.18 
████████  ████████  ████████   Resolution: 1920x1080 
████████  ████████  ████████   DE: Xfce 4.14 
████████  ████████  ████████   WM: Xfwm4 
████████  ████████  ████████   WM Theme: Matcha-sea 
████████  ████████  ████████   Theme: Matcha-sea [GTK2], Adwaita [GTK3] 
████████  ████████  ████████   Icons: Papirus-Maia [GTK2], Adwaita [GTK3] 
                               Terminal: xfce4-terminal 
                               Terminal Font: Monospace 12 
                               CPU: Intel i7-9850H (12) @ 4.600GHz 
                               GPU: NVIDIA GeForce MX150 
                               GPU: Intel UHD Graphics 630 
                               Memory: 8905MiB / 31899MiB 

Julia version

Julia Version 1.5.0
Commit 96786e22cc (2020-08-01 23:44 UTC)
Platform Info:
  OS: Linux (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)
  CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-9850H CPU @ 2.60GHz
  WORD_SIZE: 64
  LIBM: libopenlibm
  LLVM: libLLVM-9.0.1 (ORCJIT, skylake)

GLFW version

glfw-x11 3.3.2-1

To test GPU rendering / computation, I used this example from InteractiveChaos.

My julia environment looks like this:

  [61744808] DynamicalSystems v1.4.0
  [81850811] InteractiveChaos v0.9.0
  [ee78f7c6] Makie v0.11.0

I found that

• It was not necessary to downgrade GLFW to version <= 3.1.0 as stated in https://github.com/JuliaPlots/Makie.jl/issues/630#issuecomment-654324324.
• Nor was it needed to set the environment variable (MESA_LOADER_DRIVER_OVERRIDE=i965) as stated in https://github.com/JuliaPlots/Makie.jl/issues/486#issuecomment-670095965

The solution is launching Julia while forcing to use the dedicated GPU (NVIDIA GeForce MX150) instead of the integrated GPU (Intel UHD Graphics 630). I got the idea from this manjaro forum post. For an Nvidia GPU, you prefix the command with prime-run. Note that I am using PRIME to manage the hybrid graphics. More info on Nvidia on arch and PRIME on arch.

My code used for testing the solution:

$ prime-run /path/to/julia
julia> using Pkg
julia> Pkg.activate("/path/to/your/env/")
julia> Pkg.add.(["InteractiveChaos", "DynamicalSystems", "Makie"])
julia> #see link above for details about this InteractiveChaos example
julia> i = p_index = 1
julia> ds, p_min, p_max, parname = Systems.standardmap(), 0.0, 1.2, "k"
julia> t = "orbit diagram for the standard map"
julia> oddata = interactive_orbitdiagram(ds, p_index, p_min, p_max, i; parname = parname, title = t)

I used NVIDIA X server settings to verify that everything was run on the correct GPU.

I hope this helps!

[SimonDanisch]

This should be the issue behind it: https://github.com/JuliaGL/GLFW.jl/issues/198