Black Screen on Startup

[Anonymous]

Hello,

I am currently attempting to run eagle 9.3.0 on Ubuntu 18.04.

When I run eagle from the command prompt I get a black screen that Sign In on the top program window. Below is an example of the information that I get when I try to run eagle from the command prompt. The ERROR that is printed repeats about 20 times before stopping and then nothing happens. I have tried going back and running other versions of 9.x.x and it has generated the same issues.

Please let me know how I can help address this issue I am experiencing.

michael@michael-ubuntu:~/Programs/eagle/eagle-9.3.0$ ./eagle
Sandboxing disabled by user.
[2556:2565:0225/112123.555173:ERROR:nss_ocsp.cc(591)] No URLRequestContext for NSS HTTP handler. host: ocsp.digicert.com
[2556:2565:0225/112123.555237:ERROR:nss_ocsp.cc(591)] No URLRequestContext for NSS HTTP handler. host: ocsp.digicert.com

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

Running these commands I was able to get Eagle to run appropriately.

michael@michael-ubuntu:~/Programs/eagle/eagle-9.3.0$ export LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=1
michael@michael-ubuntu:~/Programs/eagle/eagle-9.3.0$ ./eagle

[Anonymous]

Thanks. this thread helped. I had originally gotten a workaround to run eagle, but for some reason today it stopped working and i got the black screens.

I used your solution (which was an alternate solution to my original problem in my thread as well) and got it to work with my custom Ubuntu / PopOS launcher. Now when i press my "super key" and type in "Eagle" i can launch it without having to dig around in a terminal. It works again! Thanks!

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/eagle-forum/eagle-fails-to-run-symbol-lookup-error-lib-x86-64-linux-g...

[sandipmaurya030]

Still black screen.

[nbrittain3]

Also having this problem, would really appreciate some help on this.

OS: 20.02.4

Eagle Version: 9.6.2

Getting a black screen on login, this is a new problem, wasn't happening a month ago. Tried to reinstall eagle and can't login at all.

[chriscombs]

are y'all sure you're entering "export LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=1" before running Eagle? that screenshot just seems to show you running the main Eagle binary.

personally I put together a small shell script, like this:

#!/bin/bash
export LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=1
/usr/share/eagle/latest/eagle

^ that's where I store it, in /usr/share/eagle/latest. your mileage may vary.

and you can make a desktop icon by creating ~/.local/share/applications/eagle.desktop with contents:

[Desktop Entry]
Comment=Eagle
Terminal=false
Name=Eagle
Exec=/usr/share/eagle/eaglewrapper.sh
Type=Application
Icon=/usr/share/eagle/latest/bin/eagle-logo.png
Version=9.4.0
Categories=Electronics

[p.svoboda.jr]

Hi, it seems i have the same issues. Did you solve it in any way?

Thank you