libGL error: unable to load driver: swrast_dri.so

bob prohaska fbsd at www.zefox.net
Sun May 28 19:09:59 UTC 2017


On Sun, May 28, 2017 at 07:51:31PM +0200, Ronald Klop wrote:
> On Sat, 27 May 2017 18:44:37 +0200, bob prohaska <fbsd at www.zefox.net>  
> wrote:
> 
> > On an RPI2 www/epiphany finally compiled using portmaster. When started
> > it runs (somewhat)  but reports
> >
> > libGL error: unable to load driver: swrast_dri.so
> >
> 
> AFAIK swrast is the Software Raster driver. So I don't think the link is  
> with NVidia in your case.
> I had the same error on my laptop with a Radeon driver (r600_dri.so) a  
> while back, but don't see it anymore when I start a GL program. What I  
> remember in my case the error was harmless. The driver was already loaded  
> or something like that.
> Do you experience actual errors or only the message, i.e. does the program  
> run as expected?

The error message isn't repeating in my case either. The machine is now
heavily loaded with makeworld and epiphany segfaults within a couple of
minutes. The page loads I tried seemed to stall before the segfault. 

Looks like the problems run deeper than a missing library.

Thanks for reading!

bob prohaska



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