Install GLX 1.3 on Ubuntu 16.04.1 (Google Chrome)

I'm running a Ubuntu 16.04.1 (VM) and when using X11 forwarding I'm receiving the following error when launching google chrome (Note: Google chrome eventually launches, but I still would like to fix this error):

[4244:4244:1221/093216:ERROR:gl_surface_glx.cc(411)] GLX 1.3 or later is required.
[4244:4244:1221/093216:ERROR:gl_initializer_x11.cc(130)] GLSurfaceGLX::InitializeOneOff failed.
[4244:4244:1221/093216:ERROR:gpu_child_thread.cc(328)] Exiting GPU process due to errors during initialization

I've tried installing the latest mesa packages offered by this ppa, but still no luck. Anyone have any ideas?

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:xorg-edgers/ppa
sudo apt-get update

GLX is still reporting at version 1.2

I'm not super familiar with the mesa libraries and how they work, but i'm running the latest as far as I can tell:

cj@ubuntu:/lib/modules$ dpkg -l | grep mesa
ii libegl1-mesa:amd64 13.0.1+git20161127+13.0.f7b58a37-0ubuntu0ricotz~xenial amd64 free implementation of the EGL API -- runtime
ii libgl1-mesa-dri:amd64 13.0.1+git20161127+13.0.f7b58a37-0ubuntu0ricotz~xenial amd64 free implementation of the OpenGL API -- DRI modules
ii libgl1-mesa-glx:amd64 13.0.1+git20161127+13.0.f7b58a37-0ubuntu0ricotz~xenial amd64 free implementation of the OpenGL API -- GLX runtime
ii libglapi-mesa:amd64 13.0.1+git20161127+13.0.f7b58a37-0ubuntu0ricotz~xenial amd64 free implementation of the GL API -- shared library
ii libglu1-mesa:amd64 9.0.0-2.1 amd64 Mesa OpenGL utility library (GLU)
ii libwayland-egl1-mesa:amd64 13.0.1+git20161127+13.0.f7b58a37-0ubuntu0ricotz~xenial amd64 implementation of the Wayland EGL platform -- runtime
ii mesa-utils 8.3.0-1 amd64 Miscellaneous Mesa GL utilities

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks!

2 Answers

$ sudo ppa-purge xorg-edgers

...

$ sudo -E add-apt-repository ppa:xorg-edgers/ppa

...

$ sudo apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages will be upgraded: libvulkan-dev libvulkan1
2 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/1,558 kB of archives.
After this operation, 5,443 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y
(Reading database ... 208248 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../libvulkan-dev_1.1.73+dfsg-1~gpu18.04.1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking libvulkan-dev:amd64 (1.1.73+dfsg-1~gpu18.04.1) over (1.1.70+dfsg1-1) ...
Preparing to unpack .../libvulkan1_1.1.73+dfsg-1~gpu18.04.1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking libvulkan1:amd64 (1.1.73+dfsg-1~gpu18.04.1) over (1.1.70+dfsg1-1) ...
Setting up libvulkan1:amd64 (1.1.73+dfsg-1~gpu18.04.1) ...
Setting up libvulkan-dev:amd64 (1.1.73+dfsg-1~gpu18.04.1) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.27-3ubuntu1) ...

Upgrade works fine, but still in 1.2 (OpenGL version string: 3.1 Mesa 19.0.8)

$ sudo glxinfo | grep "GLX version"
GLX version: 1.2

With sudo apt-get update you are not actually installing anything. After that you might want to run sudo apt-get upgrade to actually update the packages that the PPA has different versions for.