Posted by Jarvis on Apr 03, 2013; 2:35pm
URL: https://forum.jogamp.org/jogl-demos-fail-Failed-to-created-initialize-EGL-display-tp4028878p4028891.html

Attempting to follow @Xerxes suggestion:

I also tried removing all versions of system packages that included jogl/gluegen *.jar and *.so files, with the same results.  Then I reinstalled all of the packages with the same results.  I cleared all cache files in ~/.jnlp-applet/.  I ran javaws and cleared all cached resources.

None of these things helped the situation.