I've been documenting my attempt to work around this problem here:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/47415198/missing-gl-version-from-
glewinit-using-egl/54668271#54668271
I discovered an nvidia blog post - https://devblogs.nvidia.com/linking-
opengl-server-side-rendering/ - which says:
"If
Hi Leith,
I've submitted the message below to NVIDIA via the feedback form at
http://www.nvidia.com/object/driverqualityassurance.html
Saxon
Hi NVIDIA,
Since 384.90-0ubuntu0.16.04.2 was released, EGL crashes on set up (eg
when performing OpenGL operations like getting the
Hi,
EGL seems to be broken in this update - the same bug as reported here
for 384.90-0ubuntu0.16.04.2:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-
drivers-384/+bug/1731968
It was possible to work around the bug in 384.90-0ubuntu0.16.04.2 by
downgrading to 384.90-0ubuntu0.16.04.1,