Blender crash at startup on Ubuntu After installing via apt, trying to run for the first time on a new Ubuntu 16.04 LTS installation with NVDIA-375 drivers, Blender crash suddenly with this crash report:

# Blender 2.76 (sub 0), Commit date: 1970-01-01 00:00, Hash unknown

# backtrace
blender(BLI_system_backtrace+0x30) [0x1361b10]
blender() [0x97a98e]
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(+0x354b0) [0x7fe5348694b0]
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(+0xaa0bd) [0x7fe5348de0bd]
blender(gpu_extensions_init+0xf3) [0xf63363]
blender(GPU_init+0x20) [0xf65a10]
blender(WM_init+0x106) [0x98b0e6]
blender(main+0xd2e) [0x95cc3e]
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf0) [0x7fe534854830]
blender(_start+0x29) [0x97a2b9]


Ubuntu declares a crash in GPU extensions.
For some sort of reason, after the last Ubuntu update and before installing Blender, something was changed in the GPU drivers that made the software to not startup correctly. Restarting the system fixed the problem.