Comment 14 for bug 787932

I'm using NVIDIA binary driver on Ubuntu 12.04.

I still hit this problem.

On my system, NVIDIA's libGL.so cause segfault while Mesa's libGL works.

I'd prefer not to mess up with libGL.so linking so I do the following as workaround:
LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/mesa/libGL.so python

BTW, the package in Ubuntu (and Debian) is ridiculously oudated compare to upstream:
http://www.vpython.org/contents/download_linux.html