Gazebo crashes immediately after launching

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This happens pretty regularly, but not 100% of the time. I am on Ubuntu 16.04, running Kinetic. I have 24G of memory.

Hardware

I am running on a dual boot MacPro 2010. According to Ubuntu I have:

$ lspci | grep VGA
05:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation G96 [GeForce 9500 GT] (rev a1)

Here's the transcript.This happens pretty regularly, but not 100% of the time. I am on Ubuntu 16.04, running Kinetic. I have 24G of memory.

Update

Based on ideas below I tried to change drivers which eventually turned my Ubuntu into a hot mess. So that was not a good idea. Luckily its a pretty recent install so I just reinstalled from scratch! Things seem more stable but I am still having bad luck with Gazebo. This used to work with this hardware and software. Here's the most recent dump:

 roslaunch turtlebot3_gazebo turtlebot3_world.launch 
... logging to /home/pitosalas/.ros/log/26fa4e48-2a65-11e9-b967-002500efe1ca/roslaunch-pitosalasubuntu-10116.log
Checking log directory for disk usage. This may take awhile.
Press Ctrl-C to interrupt
Done checking log file disk usage. Usage is <1GB.

started roslaunch server http://localhost:38729/

SUMMARY
========

PARAMETERS
 * /robot_description: <?xml version="1....
 * /rosdistro: kinetic
 * /rosversion: 1.12.14
 * /use_sim_time: True

NODES
  /
    gazebo (gazebo_ros/gzserver)
    gazebo_gui (gazebo_ros/gzclient)
    spawn_urdf (gazebo_ros/spawn_model)

auto-starting new master
process[master]: started with pid [10129]
ROS_MASTER_URI=http://localhost:11311

setting /run_id to 26fa4e48-2a65-11e9-b967-002500efe1ca
process[rosout-1]: started with pid [10142]
started core service [/rosout]
process[gazebo-2]: started with pid [10153]
process[gazebo_gui-3]: started with pid [10171]
process[spawn_urdf-4]: started with pid [10176]
[ INFO] [1549494956.646160684]: Finished loading Gazebo ROS API Plugin.
[ INFO] [1549494956.646748625]: waitForService: Service [/gazebo/set_physics_properties] has not been advertised, waiting...
[ INFO] [1549494956.721824352]: Finished loading Gazebo ROS API Plugin.
[ INFO] [1549494956.722971344]: waitForService: Service [/gazebo/set_physics_properties] has not been advertised, waiting...
[ INFO] [1549494957.976256679, 0.024000000]: waitForService: Service [/gazebo/set_physics_properties] is now available.
[ INFO] [1549494958.806152043, 0.096000000]: Laser Plugin: Using the 'robotNamespace' param: '/'
[ INFO] [1549494958.806242781, 0.096000000]: Starting Laser Plugin (ns = /)
[ INFO] [1549494958.806709443, 0.096000000]: Physics dynamic reconfigure ready.
[ INFO] [1549494958.808303798, 0.096000000]: Laser Plugin (ns = /)  <tf_prefix_>, set to ""
[ INFO] [1549494958.892335270, 0.096000000]: Starting plugin DiffDrive(ns = //)
[ INFO] [1549494958.892476407, 0.096000000]: DiffDrive(ns = //): <rosDebugLevel> = na
[ INFO] [1549494958.894169929, 0.096000000]: DiffDrive(ns = //): <tf_prefix> = 
[ INFO] [1549494958.895642842, 0.096000000]: DiffDrive(ns = //): Advertise joint_states
[ INFO] [1549494958.896562751, 0.096000000]: DiffDrive(ns = //): Try to subscribe to cmd_vel
[ INFO] [1549494958.901567846, 0.096000000]: DiffDrive(ns = //): Subscribe to cmd_vel
[ INFO] [1549494958.902986415, 0.096000000]: DiffDrive(ns = //): Advertise odom on odom 
[ INFO] [1549494958.934911076, 0.119000000]: waitForService: Service [/gazebo/set_physics_properties] is now available.
[ INFO] [1549494958.992847893, 0.176000000]: Physics dynamic reconfigure ready.
[spawn_urdf-4] process has finished cleanly
log file: /home/pitosalas/.ros/log/26fa4e48-2a65-11e9-b967-002500efe1ca/spawn_urdf-4*.log
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
[gazebo_gui-3] process has died [pid 10171, exit code 139, cmd /opt/ros/kinetic/lib/gazebo_ros/gzclient __name:=gazebo_gui __log:=/home/pitosalas/.ros/log/26fa4e48-2a65-11e9-b967-002500efe1ca/gazebo_gui-3.log].
log file: /home/pitosalas/.ros/log/26fa4e48-2a65-11e9-b967-002500efe1ca/gazebo_gui-3*.log
^C[gazebo-2] killing on exit
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