glxinfo reports libGL error for nouveau_dri.so on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Solution Unverified - Updated -

Issue

  • glxinfo reports libGL error for nouveau_dri.so on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
$ glxinfo > /tmp/glxinfo
libGL error: dlopen /usr/lib64/dri/nouveau_dri.so failed
(/usr/lib64/dri/nouveau_dri.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file
or directory)
libGL error: unable to load driver: nouveau_dri.so
libGL error: driver pointer missing
libGL error: failed to load driver: nouveau
  • The message was not observed in older update level of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 OS.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • Nvidia graphics hardware with nouveau driver

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