Problem
When trying to launch an application within a vncserver Session which needs OpenGL the application crashes.
Possible Workaround
Set the environment variable LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT to yes:
For tcsh:
setenv LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT yes
For bash:
export LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT=yes
What does LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT do? See: http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/1437/what-does-libgl-always-indirect-1-actually-do