Did you try my suggestions?  Even if they worked, I need to know so I can 
document the issue.

On Friday, June 1, 2018 at 10:35:40 AM UTC-5, DRC wrote:
>
> VGL servers do not have to be headless, but logging in and logging out of 
> the 3D X server could cause problems in the following ways:
>
> 1. In many cases, logging in at the server console causes the permissions 
> on the framebuffer device to be reassigned to whichever account is logging 
> in. vglserver_config is supposed to modify the system appropriately to 
> ensure that members of the vglusers group or all local users (depending on 
> which option you selected when running vglserver_config) retain permission 
> to the framebuffer device, but perhaps this is not working on your system 
> for some reason. The OpenGL 0x502 error could be caused by inappropriate 
> access to the framebuffer device. If you can reproduce the error reliably, 
> double check the framebuffer device permissions when it occurs. If they are 
> somehow being set incorrectly, then I can investigate that.
>
> 2. When you log in and back out of the 3D X server, this will change the 
> cookie that VGL uses to access the 3D X server 
> (/etc/opt/VirtualGL/vgl_xauth_key). Since that cookie is normally merged 
> into a user’s ~/.Xauthority file when vglrun is executed, it’s possible 
> that logging in and back out of the 3D X server could cause 3D applications 
> that are already running to lose access to the 3D X server. VGL makes a 
> connection to the 3D X server only when it needs to— generally whenever the 
> application makes a GLX call for the first time. It seems unlikely that you 
> would be logging in to the 3D X server during the brief period between the 
> application starting and VGL making the necessary connection to the 3D X 
> server, but perhaps VGL is unable to make that connection while you are 
> logged in. That is also something I can investigate.
>
> As far as the LXDE problem, that sounds like more of a TurboVNC problem. 
> The first thing I’d try to remedy that issue is to start the TurboVNC 
> Server session with /opt/TurboVNC/bin/vncserver -composite. If that works, 
> I’ll make a note of it in the TurboVNC Window Manager Compatibility Report. 
> If not, I’ll have to investigate further.
>
>

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