I am trying to get PyBullet to work on my WSL2 installation of Ubuntu 22.04 with an Nvidia GTX 1050Ti. When I run p.connect(p.GUI), the execution fails with the following output:
startThreads creating 1 threads.
starting thread 0
started thread 0
argc=2
argv[0] = --unused
argv[1] = --start_demo_name=Physics Server
ExampleBrowserThreadFunc started
X11 functions dynamically loaded using dlopen/dlsym OK!
X11 functions dynamically loaded using dlopen/dlsym OK!
libGL error: MESA-LOADER: failed to open swrast: /home/dkapur17/anaconda3/envs/drl/lib/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.30' not found (required by /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libLLVM-15.so.1) (search paths /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri:\$${ORIGIN}/dri:/usr/lib/dri, suffix _dri)
libGL error: failed to load driver: swrast
Creating context
Failed to create GL 3.3 context ... using old-style GLX context
Failed to create an OpenGL context
Following is the output of glxinfo -B:
name of display: :0
display: :0 screen: 0
direct rendering: Yes
Extended renderer info (GLX_MESA_query_renderer):
Vendor: Microsoft Corporation (0xffffffff)
Device: D3D12 (NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti) (0xffffffff)
Version: 23.0.4
Accelerated: yes
Video memory: 12132MB
Unified memory: no
Preferred profile: core (0x1)
Max core profile version: 4.2
Max compat profile version: 4.2
Max GLES1 profile version: 1.1
Max GLES[23] profile version: 3.1
OpenGL vendor string: Microsoft Corporation
OpenGL renderer string: D3D12 (NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti)
OpenGL core profile version string: 4.2 (Core Profile) Mesa 23.0.4-0ubuntu1~22.04.1
OpenGL core profile shading language version string: 4.20
OpenGL core profile context flags: (none)
OpenGL core profile profile mask: core profile
OpenGL version string: 4.2 (Compatibility Profile) Mesa 23.0.4-0ubuntu1~22.04.1
OpenGL shading language version string: 4.20
OpenGL context flags: (none)
OpenGL profile mask: compatibility profile
OpenGL ES profile version string: OpenGL ES 3.1 Mesa 23.0.4-0ubuntu1~22.04.1
OpenGL ES profile shading language version string: OpenGL ES GLSL ES 3.10
Programs like glxgears, gedit, and gimp all work.
Solved! Turns out it was a dependency issue, and had nothing to do with WSL. I installed the required dependencies using
conda install -c conda-forge libgcc=5.2.0
conda install -c anaconda libstdcxx-ng
conda install -c conda-forge gcc=12.1.0
And PyBullet started launching as expected.