Blender 2.73a crashes on startup on Ubuntu 14.04.1 x86_64
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System Information
Operating system and graphics card
Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS
3.13.0-43-generic
x86_64
NVIDIA Corporation GF110 [GeForce GTX 580] (rev a1)
libc 2.19-0ubuntu6.5

Blender Version
Broken: 2.73a-linux-glibc211-x86_64
Worked: 2.72b-linux-glibc211-x86_64

Short description of error
Crashes on start.
takis@zotac:~/Downloads/blender-2.73a-linux-glibc211-x86_64$ ./blender
connect failed: No such file or directory
AL lib: (EE) UpdateDeviceParams: Failed to set 44100hz, got 48000hz instead
libGL error: failed to load driver: swrast
found bundled python: /home/takis/Downloads/blender-2.73a-linux-glibc211-x86_64/2.73/python
Writing: /tmp/blender.crash.txt
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

cat /tmp/blender.crash.txt

Blender 2.73 (sub 0), Commit date: 2015-01-20 18:16, Hash bbf09d9

backtrace

./blender(BLI_system_backtrace+0x1d) [0x192798d]
./blender() [0xff680c]
./blender() [0xff69e9]
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(+0x36d40) [0x7fe51f712d40]

Exact steps for others to reproduce the error
Based on a (as simple as possible) attached .blend file with minimum amount of steps

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Type: Bug

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Mentioned Here: rBbbf09d9ee68d: Point 2.73a release to updated addons revision

Panagiotis Issaris (takis) created this task.Feb 2 2015, 5:04 PM

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Ah, I just noticed that there's a problem with my NVIDIA driver. I had only checked using glxinfo, and noticed NVIDIA instead of Mesa, so I figured the driver was working fine. But, glxgears now shows me only 60fps for a tiny window, so there's something wrong.

Updated driver to:
NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-346.35.run

This now gives no results, while before the update there was one reference to Mesa...
glxinfo |grep -i mesa

And now it does work as expected:

takis@zotac:~/Downloads/blender-2.73a-linux-glibc211-x86_64$ ./blender
connect failed: No such file or directory
AL lib: (EE) UpdateDeviceParams: Failed to set 44100hz, got 48000hz instead
found bundled python: /home/takis/Downloads/blender-2.73a-linux-glibc211-x86_64/2.73/python

Yeah, crashes on startup often appear with unsupported graphics drivers. This one should be the latest for your card.

Ah, we commented almost simultaneously :S

Glad it's working again then :)