[PLUG] Programs won't launch after going back to nouveau driver

[John Jason Jordan]

On Thu, 9 Dec 2010 16:31:34 -0800
Dan Young <danielmyoung at gmail.com> dijo:

>On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 5:59 PM, John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net>
>wrote:
>> I am at a loss to figure out why installing the nVidia driver should
>> affect these two applications or how it managed to do so. They were
>> both running fine with the nouveau driver before I installed the
>> nVidia driver.

>NVIDIA overwrites the system's libGL. nvidia-tls "provides thread
>local storage support for the NVIDIA OpenGL libraries (libGL,
>libnvidia-glcore, and libglx)" [1] I'd guess you still have the
>NVIDIA-installed libGL. Applications that link to libGL throw up
>because nvidia-tls is gone, but the NVIDIA libGL remains, maybe? Or at
>least the apps are still linked to the old libGL.

The nVidia driver installation must have overwritten a file that these
apps (and just these two apps) are looking at in order to find the
right libraries. 

>Can you try:
>yum reinstall mesa-libGL
>ldconfig

Both commands executed without error, but still no joy. 

Perhaps it's not the mesa-libGL package?