VP2 Error : Failed to initialize graphics device. (RHEL 6.8)

[Anonymous]

Hi,

I'm trying to fix a problem with Maya 2017 failing to initialise the graphics card.  We can't use Viewport 2.0.  We're using Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.8 with Quadro M5000s and the proprietary nvidia drivers.  

I've tried Maya 2017 and 2016.5, and 375.26, 375.20 & 367.27 nvidia drivers (pre-packaged and via the manual script).  All with the same result:

bash-4.1$ /usr/autodesk/maya2017/bin/maya

VP2 Error : Failed to initialize graphics device.
Error: The GPU adaptor of the transform to finalize is null

There are similar queries on the forums with no responses.  Does anyone with a similar environment have this working?

Any help would be very much appreciated.

sbg

[Anonymous]

I must've been doing something wrong during my tests.  The problem appears to be with libglvnd which was introduced by the package I was installing the nvidia drivers from.  Switching to a "cleaner" packager solves the problem.