GLFW couldn't create an OpenGL window

[Gauthameshwar]

I am running GLMakie from a headless server to do X11 forwarding and get interactive graphs on my local PC. However, on installing GLMakie, I get this error:

julia> using GLMakie
Precompiling GLMakie...
Info Given GLMakie was explicitly requested, output will be shown live 
┌ Warning: 
│     GLFW couldn't create an OpenGL window.
│     This likely means, you don't have an OpenGL capable Graphic Card,
│     or you don't have an OpenGL 3.3 capable video driver installed.
│     Have a look at the troubleshooting section in the GLMakie readme:
│     https://github.com/MakieOrg/Makie.jl/tree/master/GLMakie#troubleshooting-opengl.
└ @ GLMakie ~/.julia/packages/GLMakie/TH3rf/src/screen.jl:261
ERROR: LoadError: GLFWError (VERSION_UNAVAILABLE): GLX: Forward compatibility requested but GLX_ARB_create_context_profile is unavailable
Stacktrace:
  [1] _ErrorCallbackWrapper(code::Int32, description::Cstring)
    @ GLFW ~/.julia/packages/GLFW/wmoTL/src/callback.jl:43
  [2] CreateWindow(width::Int64, height::Int64, title::String, monitor::GLFW.Monitor, share::GLFW.Window)
    @ GLFW ~/.julia/packages/GLFW/wmoTL/src/glfw3.jl:571
  [3] GLFW.Window(; name::String, resolution::Tuple{Int64, Int64}, debugging::Bool, major::Int64, minor::Int64, windowhints::Vector{Tuple{UInt32, Integer}}, contexthints::Vector{Tuple{UInt32, Integer}}, visible::Bool, focus::Bool, fullscreen::Bool, monitor::Nothing, share::GLFW.Window)
    @ GLFW ~/.julia/packages/GLFW/wmoTL/src/glfw3.jl:404
  [4] Window
    @ ~/.julia/packages/GLFW/wmoTL/src/glfw3.jl:362 [inlined]
  [5] empty_screen(debugging::Bool; reuse::Bool, window::Nothing)
    @ GLMakie ~/.julia/packages/GLMakie/TH3rf/src/screen.jl:252
  [6] empty_screen
    @ ~/.julia/packages/GLMakie/TH3rf/src/screen.jl:229 [inlined]
  [7] singleton_screen(debugging::Bool)
    @ GLMakie ~/.julia/packages/GLMakie/TH3rf/src/screen.jl:352
  [8] macro expansion
    @ ~/.julia/packages/GLMakie/TH3rf/src/precompiles.jl:21 [inlined]
  [9] macro expansion
    @ ~/.julia/packages/PrecompileTools/L8A3n/src/workloads.jl:78 [inlined]
 [10] macro expansion
    @ ~/.julia/packages/GLMakie/TH3rf/src/precompiles.jl:18 [inlined]
 [11] macro expansion
    @ ~/.julia/packages/PrecompileTools/L8A3n/src/workloads.jl:140 [inlined]
 [12] top-level scope
    @ ~/.julia/packages/GLMakie/TH3rf/src/precompiles.jl:16
 [13] include(mod::Module, _path::String)
    @ Base ./Base.jl:557
 [14] include(x::String)
    @ GLMakie ~/.julia/packages/GLMakie/TH3rf/src/GLMakie.jl:1
 [15] top-level scope
    @ ~/.julia/packages/GLMakie/TH3rf/src/GLMakie.jl:98
 [16] include
    @ ./Base.jl:557 [inlined]
 [17] include_package_for_output(pkg::Base.PkgId, input::String, depot_path::Vector{String}, dl_load_path::Vector{String}, load_path::Vector{String}, concrete_deps::Vector{Pair{Base.PkgId, UInt128}}, source::Nothing)◑ GLMakie
    @ Base ./loading.jl:2790
 [18] top-level scope
    @ stdin:5
in expression starting at /home/gautham/.julia/packages/GLMakie/TH3rf/src/precompiles.jl:15
in expression starting at /home/gautham/.julia/packages/GLMakie/TH3rf/src/GLMakie.jl:1
in expression starting at stdin:5
  ✗ GLMakie
  0 dependencies successfully precompiled in 39 seconds. 306 already precompiled.

As suggested by the error, I have followed the troubleshooting steps from the README here. Here are the output as I follow it:

gautham@m30:~$ which Xvfb
/usr/bin/Xvfb
gautham@m30:~$ glxinfo
name of display: localhost:10.0
X Error of failed request:  BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation)
  Major opcode of failed request:  149 (GLX)
  Minor opcode of failed request:  24 (X_GLXCreateNewContext)
  Value in failed request:  0x0
  Serial number of failed request:  17
  Current serial number in output stream:  18
gautham@m30:~$ sudo apt install ubuntu-desktop mesa-utils
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... 50%
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
mesa-utils is already the newest version (8.3.0-1).
ubuntu-desktop is already the newest version (1.361.6).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
gautham@m30:~$ sudo apt-get install -y xorg-dev mesa-utils xvfb libgl1 freeglut3-dev libxrandr-dev libxinerama-dev libxcursor-dev libxi-dev libxext-dev
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Note, selecting 'libgl1-mesa-glx' instead of 'libgl1'
libxext-dev is already the newest version (2:1.3.3-1).
libxi-dev is already the newest version (2:1.7.6-1).
libxinerama-dev is already the newest version (2:1.1.3-1).
libxrandr-dev is already the newest version (2:1.5.0-1).
freeglut3-dev is already the newest version (2.8.1-2).
mesa-utils is already the newest version (8.3.0-1).
libgl1-mesa-glx is already the newest version (18.0.5-0ubuntu0~16.04.1).
libxcursor-dev is already the newest version (1:1.1.14-1ubuntu0.16.04.2).
xorg-dev is already the newest version (1:7.7+13ubuntu3.1).
xvfb is already the newest version (2:1.18.4-0ubuntu0.12).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
gautham@m30:~$ xclock
gautham@m30:~$ glxinfo
name of display: localhost:10
X Error of failed request:  BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation)
  Major opcode of failed request:  149 (GLX)
  Minor opcode of failed request:  24 (X_GLXCreateNewContext)
  Value in failed request:  0x0
  Serial number of failed request:  17
  Current serial number in output stream:  18
gautham@m30:~$ glxgears
X Error of failed request:  BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation)
  Major opcode of failed request:  149 (GLX)
  Minor opcode of failed request:  3 (X_GLXCreateContext)
  Value in failed request:  0x0
  Serial number of failed request:  23
  Current serial number in output stream:  24
gautham@m30:~$ 

I don't know where or how to fix the issue. I have verified X11 forwarding is working on my remote server (xclock runs fine), and I have also installed all the packages as suggested in the troubleshooting exercises. Could someone please help me with this issue here? I would love an interactive GLMakie on a remote server rather than a static backend such as CairoMakie.

• What version of Makie are you running? (]st -m Makie)

(@v1.11) pkg> st -m Makie
Status `~/.julia/environments/v1.11/Manifest.toml`
⌅ [ee78f7c6] Makie v0.21.18
Info Packages marked with ⌅ have new versions available but compatibility constraints restrict them from upgrading. To see why use `status --outdated -m`

• Can you reproduce the bug with a fresh environment? (]activate --temp; add Makie)
  I am running this command from a headless remote server, so I don't know how to reproduce this bug.

• What platform + GPU are you on?

OS: Ubuntu 16.04 xenial
Kernel: x86_64 Linux 4.4.0-210-generic
Packages: 2457
Shell: shell integration-bash.sh
CPU: 2x Intel Xeon CPU E5-2698 v4 @ 3.6GHz
GPU: Quadro 600, Tesla K40c, Tesla K40c

gautham@m30:~$ nvidia-smi
Fri Jan 17 18:34:47 2025       
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 390.116                Driver Version: 390.116                   |
|-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| GPU  Name        Persistence-M| Bus-Id        Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan  Temp  Perf  Pwr:Usage/Cap|         Memory-Usage | GPU-Util  Compute M. |
|===============================+======================+======================|
|   0  Quadro 600          On   | 00000000:02:00.0 Off |                  N/A |
| 30%   39C    P8    N/A /  N/A |      0MiB /   964MiB |      0%      Default |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
|   1  Tesla K40c          On   | 00000000:03:00.0 Off |                    0 |
| 23%   35C    P8    22W / 235W |      0MiB / 11441MiB |      0%      Default |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
|   2  Tesla K40c          On   | 00000000:81:00.0 Off |                    0 |
| 23%   42C    P8    23W / 235W |      0MiB / 11441MiB |      0%      Default |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
                                                                               
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes:                                                       GPU Memory |
|  GPU       PID   Type   Process name                             Usage      |
|=============================================================================|
|  No running processes found                                                 |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+