Now I've compiled VICE from source ("manually", with tarball from the official site etc), and the same result, crashing, with gdb reports things like this one (note, it was tested on two different machines running 17.10 both with official vice package and my own compiled one, always things like this I get):

[New Thread 0x7fffc7bc9700 (LWP 5936)]
[New Thread 0x7fffc6c60700 (LWP 5937)]

Thread 1 "x64" received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x00007ffff1e80add in XQueryExtension ()
   from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libX11.so.6
(gdb) bt
#0  0x00007ffff1e80add in XQueryExtension ()
    at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libX11.so.6
#1  0x00007ffff1e74692 in XInitExtension ()
    at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libX11.so.6
#2  0x00007ffff44c551c in  () at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/mesa/libGL.so.1
#3  0x00007ffff44c0e51 in glXQueryVersion ()
    at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/mesa/libGL.so.1
#4  0x00007ffff4270cfc in glxewInit ()
    at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGLEW.so.2.0
#5  0x00007ffff4279043 in glewInit ()
    at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGLEW.so.2.0
#6  0x0000555555770bd4 in realize_opengl_cb (area=<optimized out>, user_data=0x555557f2b1d0) at opengl_renderer.c:170
#7  0x00007ffff4a3cf9d in g_closure_invoke ()
    at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#8  0x00007ffff4a4fcde in  () at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#9  0x00007ffff4a584b5 in g_signal_emit_valist ()
    at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#10 0x00007ffff4a58ecf in g_signal_emit ()
    at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#11 0x00007ffff584de76 in gtk_widget_realize ()
    at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgtk-3.so.0
#12 0x00007ffff584e178 in gtk_widget_map ()
    at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgtk-3.so.0
---Type <return> to continue, or q <return> to quit---
#13 0x00007ffff56af0c0 in  () at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgtk-3.so.0
#14 0x00007ffff562aaef in  () at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgtk-3.so.0
#15 0x00007ffff4a3d0e0 in  () at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#16 0x00007ffff4a5879f in g_signal_emit_valist ()
    at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#17 0x00007ffff4a58ecf in g_signal_emit ()
    at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#18 0x00007ffff584e122 in gtk_widget_map ()
    at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgtk-3.so.0
#19 0x00007ffff586441f in  () at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgtk-3.so.0
#20 0x00007ffff4a3d1d6 in  () at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#21 0x00007ffff4a5879f in g_signal_emit_valist ()
    at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#22 0x00007ffff4a58ecf in g_signal_emit ()
    at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#23 0x00007ffff584e122 in gtk_widget_map ()
    at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgtk-3.so.0
#24 0x00007ffff585bf9d in  () at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgtk-3.so.0
#25 0x00007ffff4a3cf9d in g_closure_invoke ()
    at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#26 0x00007ffff4a4fdae in  () at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#27 0x00007ffff4a584b5 in g_signal_emit_valist ()
    at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#28 0x00007ffff4a58ecf in g_signal_emit ()
---Type <return> to continue, or q <return> to quit---
    at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#29 0x00007ffff5847ee6 in gtk_widget_show ()
    at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgtk-3.so.0
#30 0x0000555555769f67 in video_canvas_create (canvas=canvas@entry=0x555557f2b1d0, width=0x555557f3d71c, height=0x555557f3d720, mapped=mapped@entry=1)
    at video.c:217
#31 0x0000555555742abe in realize_canvas (raster=0x555557b4f248 <vicii+8>)
    at raster.c:159
#32 0x0000555555742abe in raster_realize (raster=raster@entry=0x555557b4f248 <vicii+8>) at raster.c:416
#33 0x0000555555736c8d in init_raster () at vicii.c:365
#34 0x0000555555736c8d in vicii_init (flag=flag@entry=0) at vicii.c:411
#35 0x00005555555d37ab in machine_specific_init () at c64.c:1020
#36 0x00005555555b7b2b in machine_init () at machine.c:239
#37 0x00005555555ac3d0 in init_main () at init.c:241
#38 0x00005555555b810c in main_program (argc=<optimized out>, argv=<optimized out>) at main.c:279
#39 0x00007ffff2eb31c1 in __libc_start_main (main=
    0x55555559a260 <main>, argc=1, argv=0x7fffffffe098, init=<optimized out>, fini=<optimized out>, rtld_fini=<optimized out>, stack_end=0x7fffffffe088)
    at ../csu/libc-start.c:308
#40 0x000055555559a29a in _start ()
(gdb)