With apologies, I gave up my own attempts to fix this and came here for help just a little too soon.
It turns out that there were updates to the NVIDIA drivers, and somehow, despite the updates not saying "reboot needed", those needed me to reboot the system. Now that I've done so, it's working again. Cheers, Simon On Mon, Jul 21, 2025 at 11:09 AM Simon Roberts < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, I'm using GNC 5.5 on Ubuntu 22.04 and it's worked fine since I > built it, but for some reason today I'm not able to print an invoice. > > The invoice is created and posted, but when I hit the "Print Invoice" > button, the program crashes out (leaving the lock file in place). I ran it > from the command line and it issues an error message that I hoped might > tell me something, but google doesn't bring anything up. The error is: > > Could not create GBM EGL display: EGL_NOT_INITIALIZED. Aborting... > > It core dumps right after this. > > You can probably guess from the age of my OS and the build that I'm not in > the habit of updating things for the sake of it, and I'd prefer to avoid > changing the installation if I can avoid it, but clearly something has > changed (and I think it must be in my Linux system). Can anyone suggest > what might have happened? > > TIA, > Simon > > > -- > Simon Roberts > 303 249 3613 > https://www.youtube.com/@DancingCloudServices > https://www.linkedin.com/in/simonhgroberts/ > > -- Simon Roberts 303 249 3613 https://www.youtube.com/@DancingCloudServices https://www.linkedin.com/in/simonhgroberts/ _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [email protected] To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
