Posted by Jarvis on Apr 03, 2013; 2:24pm
URL: https://forum.jogamp.org/jogl-demos-fail-Failed-to-created-initialize-EGL-display-tp4028878p4028889.html

It definitely seems that this is a Mesa/EGL problem, but I really don't know what to do about it.  On Ubuntu 12.04, they offer the package "libegl1-mesa" with the following description:

"This package contains the EGL native platform graphics interface library.
 EGL provides a platform-agnostic mechanism for creating rendering surfaces
 for use with other graphics libraries, such as OpenGL|ES and OpenVG."  

I definitely have that installed.  According to https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RadeonDriver this page, I have OpenGL/ 3D hardware acceleration enabled.  

Following the suggestion of @Sven_Gothel, I downloaded the most recent aggregated build of jogamp.  I then replaced all of the jogl/gluegen *.jar files in the project I am working on, and rebuilt a new jar file for the project.  Unfortunately, I am stuck with the same error.

What is the next step? Follow @gouessej suggestion and file a bug report?