ROS rviz OGRE EXCEPTION

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Operating System Details: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) - ROS Hydro

The following command:

rosrun rviz rviz

Briefly displays the rviz logo, before repeating the following error 100 times:

[ WARN] [1383004708.902971662]: OGRE EXCEPTION(3:RenderingAPIException): Invalid parentWindowHandle (wrong server or screen) in GLXWindow::create at /build/buildd/ogre-1.7.4/RenderSystems/GL/src/GLX/OgreGLXWindow.cpp (line 229)

rviz::RenderSystem: error creating render window: std::exception

And then finally giving up with the following messages:

[ERROR] [1383004708.903200106]: Unable to create the rendering window after 100 tries.

rviz: /tmp/buildd/ros-hydro-rviz-1.10.9-0precise-20131021-0017/src/rviz/ogre_helpers/render_system.cpp:374: Ogre::RenderWindow* rviz::RenderSystem::makeRenderWindow(intptr_t, unsigned int, unsigned int): Assertion `false' failed.

Aborted (core dumped)

I've tried re-installing rviz, which didn't help. Also, I was having the same problem before moving from fuerte to hydro (though a long while back rviz was working fine with fuerte). I suspect it has been an update to rviz or ogre which has caused this problem, but I'm not really sure how to go about attempting to repair it..