Simon, Makes sense that it would have to do with Nvidia drivers. EGL (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EGL_(API)) is how the Open GL (3D rendering engine) talks to your graphics card.
Regards, John Ralls > On Jul 21, 2025, at 11:14, Simon Roberts <[email protected]> > wrote: > > 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] <mailto:[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] <mailto:[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. _______________________________________________ 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.
