Bug Report Cannot run OBS on Ubuntu

[Avoura]

I just installed OBS on Ubuntu Studio 14.04, as per

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:obsproject/obs-studio
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install obs-studio​

I then ran OBS from the menu and got the following error:

error: Failed to initialize video: Unspecified error​

I then ran from CLI and got this output:

~$ obs
Attempted path: share/obs/obs-studio/locale/en-US.ini
Attempted path: /usr/share/obs/obs-studio/locale/en-US.ini
Attempted path: share/obs/obs-studio/locale.ini
Attempted path: /usr/share/obs/obs-studio/locale.ini
Attempted path: share/obs/obs-studio/themes/Default.qss
Attempted path: /usr/share/obs/obs-studio/themes/Default.qss
Attempted path: share/obs/obs-studio/license/gplv2.txt
Attempted path: /usr/share/obs/obs-studio/license/gplv2.txt
info: Processor: 8 logical cores
info: Processor: AMD FX(tm)-8350 Eight-Core Processor
info: Physical Memory: 15947MB Total
info: Kernel Version: Linux 3.13.0-65-lowlatency
info: Distribution: "Ubuntu" "14.04"
QObject::connect: invalid null parameter
info: OBS 0.12.0 (linux)
info: ---------------------------------
info: ---------------------------------
info: audio settings reset:
samples per sec: 44100
speakers: 2
buffering (ms): 1000
error: X Error: GLXBadFBConfig
error: Failed to create OpenGL context.
error: Failed to create context!
error: device_create (GL) failed
error: Failed to initialize video: Unspecified error
info: Freeing OBS context data
QPaintDevice::metrics: Device has no metric information
info: == Profiler Results =============================
info: run_program_init: 3628.41 ms
info: ┣OBSApp::AppInit: 0.978 ms
info: ┃ ┗OBSApp::InitLocale: 0.59 ms
info: ┗OBSApp::OBSInit: 225.922 ms
info: ┣obs_startup: 1.581 ms
info: ┗OBSBasic::OBSInit: 59.796 ms
info: ┣OBSBasic::InitBasicConfig: 0.782 ms
info: ┣OBSBasic::ResetAudio: 0.084 ms
info: ┗OBSBasic::ResetVideo: 58.86 ms
info: obs_hotkey_thread(25 ms): min=0.09 ms, median=0.188 ms, max=12.27 ms, 99th percentile=0.8 ms, 100% below 25 ms
info: audio_thread(Audio): min=0.004 ms, median=0.009 ms, max=0.036 ms, 99th percentile=0.027 ms
info: =================================================
info: == Profiler Time Between Calls ==================
info: obs_hotkey_thread(25 ms): min=25.159 ms, median=25.294 ms, max=37.397 ms, 94.3089% within ±2% of 25 ms (0% lower, 5.69106% higher)
info: =================================================
info: Number of memory leaks: 124​

Any idea what is going wrong or how to fix this to make it work?

I cannot create a log file as the program will not even run -- although if a log file is created somewhere let me know where so I can add that.

 

[dodgepong]

What is the output of the following command: glxinfo | grep "OpenGL"

 

[Adazi]

What is the output of the following command: glxinfo | grep "OpenGL"

Same problem to me, My output of glxinfo | grep "OpenGL" is
OpenGL vendor string: Intel Open Source Technology Center
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Mobile Intel® GM45 Express Chipset
OpenGL version string: 2.1 Mesa 10.1.3
OpenGL shading language version string: 1.20
OpenGL extensions:

Please help, I have laptop BTW

 

[dodgepong]

You need to have OpenGL 3.2 or later to run OBS. Try updating your GPU driver, and if it still doesn't work, you're out of luck.

 

[Avoura]

This is what I get

~$ glxinfo | grep "OpenGL"
OpenGL vendor string: X.Org
OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on AMD CAPE VERDE
OpenGL core profile version string: 3.1 (Core Profile) Mesa 10.1.3
OpenGL core profile shading language version string: 1.40
OpenGL core profile context flags: (none)
OpenGL core profile extensions:
OpenGL version string: 3.0 Mesa 10.1.3
OpenGL shading language version string: 1.30
OpenGL context flags: (none)
OpenGL extensions:


So I guess I need to update the driver

 

[Avoura]

I installed the proprietary AMD driver for the graphics card, and now OBS runs.

 

[Avoura]

After installing the proprietary driver, other things stopped working, so that was no good, I had to go back to the open source driver. So how do I use that and get the right OpenGL 3.2 installed to make it work?

 

[Harold]

You MIGHT be able to update the mesa version, but as it stands, you need to make a choice if that doesn't work.
OBS or the other stuff that stopped working when you switched to proprietary.