Rebooted and now it works. It might be that some library was updated and there was some sort of conflict. I marked this bug invalid.
** Changed in: blender (Ubuntu) Status: New => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1479368 Title: Blender crashes on start To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/blender/+bug/1479368/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs