VirtualBox fails with can't load xcb plugin

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eacbelcher
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VirtualBox fails with can't load xcb plugin

Post by eacbelcher »

Just installed latest upgrade VirtualBox-5.1-5.1.20_114628_openSUSE132-1.x86_64.rpm and I get the following error.

VirtualBox
Qt FATAL: This application failed to start because it could not find or load the Qt platform plugin "xcb"
in "".

Available platform plugins are: wayland-org.kde.kwin.qpa, eglfs, linuxfb, minimal, minimalegl, offscreen, wayland-egl, wayland, wayland-xcomposite-egl, wayland-xcomposite-glx, xcb.

Reinstalling the application may fix this problem.
Aborted (core dumped)

I reinstalled VirtualBox-5.1-5.1.18_114002_openSUSE132-1.x86_64.rpm and I'm working again.

I don't have time to debug this, so simply reporting.
My platform is
NAME="openSUSE Leap"
VERSION="42.2"
ID=opensuse
ID_LIKE="suse"
VERSION_ID="42.2"
PRETTY_NAME="openSUSE Leap 42.2"
ANSI_COLOR="0;32"
CPE_NAME="cpe:/o:opensuse:leap:42.2"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.opensuse.org"
HOME_URL="https://www.opensuse.org/"

My Qt Version is 5.6.1
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Re: VirtualBox fails with can't load xcb plugin

Post by frank »

I cannot test this with openSUSE leap 42.2 as I only have 42.1 available (where the openSUSE 13.2 package works fine).
Could you provide the output of

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ldd /usr/lib64/qt5/plugins/platforms/libqxcb.so
ls -ld /usr/lib64/qt5/plugins/platforms/libqxcb.so
ls -ld /usr/lib64/qt5/plugins/platforms
ls -ld /usr/lib64/qt5/plugins
ls -ld /usr/lib64/qt5
ls -ld /usr/lib64
ls -ld /usr
Thanks!
eacbelcher
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Re: VirtualBox fails with can't load xcb plugin

Post by eacbelcher »

Just tried the latest version (VirtualBox-5.1-5.1.26_117224_openSUSE132-1.x86_64.rpm) of VBOX, Same Issue
Reverting back to 5.1.18

Output requested in previus post below.

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ldd /usr/lib64/qt5/plugins/platforms/libqxcb.so
        linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007ffcad9db000)
        libQt5XcbQpa.so.5 => /usr/lib64/libQt5XcbQpa.so.5 (0x00007f4c5c239000)
        libQt5Gui.so.5 => /usr/lib64/libQt5Gui.so.5 (0x00007f4c5bae3000)
        libQt5Core.so.5 => /usr/lib64/libQt5Core.so.5 (0x00007f4c5b424000)
        libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007f4c5b09b000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib64/libc.so.6 (0x00007f4c5acf8000)
        libX11-xcb.so.1 => /usr/lib64/libX11-xcb.so.1 (0x00007f4c5aaf5000)
        libXi.so.6 => /usr/lib64/libXi.so.6 (0x00007f4c5a8e5000)
        libxcb-render-util.so.0 => /usr/lib64/libxcb-render-util.so.0 (0x00007f4c5a6e1000)
        libSM.so.6 => /usr/lib64/libSM.so.6 (0x00007f4c5a4d8000)
        libICE.so.6 => /usr/lib64/libICE.so.6 (0x00007f4c5a2bb000)
        libxcb-render.so.0 => /usr/lib64/libxcb-render.so.0 (0x00007f4c5a0b1000)
        libxcb.so.1 => /usr/lib64/libxcb.so.1 (0x00007f4c59e90000)
        libxcb-image.so.0 => /usr/lib64/libxcb-image.so.0 (0x00007f4c59c8b000)
        libxcb-icccm.so.4 => /usr/lib64/libxcb-icccm.so.4 (0x00007f4c59a85000)
        libxcb-sync.so.1 => /usr/lib64/libxcb-sync.so.1 (0x00007f4c5987e000)
        libxcb-xfixes.so.0 => /usr/lib64/libxcb-xfixes.so.0 (0x00007f4c59677000)
        libxcb-shm.so.0 => /usr/lib64/libxcb-shm.so.0 (0x00007f4c59474000)
        libxcb-randr.so.0 => /usr/lib64/libxcb-randr.so.0 (0x00007f4c59265000)
        libxcb-shape.so.0 => /usr/lib64/libxcb-shape.so.0 (0x00007f4c59061000)
        libxcb-keysyms.so.1 => /usr/lib64/libxcb-keysyms.so.1 (0x00007f4c58e5e000)
        libxcb-xinerama.so.0 => /usr/lib64/libxcb-xinerama.so.0 (0x00007f4c58c5a000)
        libxcb-xkb.so.1 => /usr/lib64/libxcb-xkb.so.1 (0x00007f4c58a3f000)
        libxkbcommon-x11.so.0 => /usr/lib64/libxkbcommon-x11.so.0 (0x00007f4c58837000)
        libfontconfig.so.1 => /usr/lib64/libfontconfig.so.1 (0x00007f4c585f8000)
        libfreetype.so.6 => /usr/lib64/libfreetype.so.6 (0x00007f4c5835b000)
        libglib-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib64/libglib-2.0.so.0 (0x00007f4c5804b000)
        libX11.so.6 => /usr/lib64/libX11.so.6 (0x00007f4c57d0c000)
        libxkbcommon.so.0 => /usr/lib64/libxkbcommon.so.0 (0x00007f4c57acd000)
        libQt5DBus.so.5 => /usr/lib64/libQt5DBus.so.5 (0x00007f4c5784b000)
        libpthread.so.0 => /lib64/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007f4c5762d000)
        libm.so.6 => /lib64/libm.so.6 (0x00007f4c57330000)
        libpng16.so.16 => /usr/lib64/libpng16.so.16 (0x00007f4c570f2000)
        libharfbuzz.so.0 => /usr/lib64/libharfbuzz.so.0 (0x00007f4c56e63000)
        libz.so.1 => /lib64/libz.so.1 (0x00007f4c56c4d000)
        libGL.so.1 => /usr/lib64/libGL.so.1 (0x00007f4c569e2000)
        libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib64/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007f4c567cb000)
        libicui18n.so.52.1 => /usr/lib64/libicui18n.so.52.1 (0x00007f4c563b7000)
        libicuuc.so.52.1 => /usr/lib64/libicuuc.so.52.1 (0x00007f4c56037000)
        libpcre16.so.0 => /usr/lib64/libpcre16.so.0 (0x00007f4c55dd1000)
        libdl.so.2 => /lib64/libdl.so.2 (0x00007f4c55bcd000)
        librt.so.1 => /lib64/librt.so.1 (0x00007f4c559c4000)
        /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x0000558be0502000)
        libXext.so.6 => /usr/lib64/libXext.so.6 (0x00007f4c557b2000)
        libuuid.so.1 => /usr/lib64/libuuid.so.1 (0x00007f4c555ac000)
        libXau.so.6 => /usr/lib64/libXau.so.6 (0x00007f4c553a8000)
        libxcb-util.so.1 => /usr/lib64/libxcb-util.so.1 (0x00007f4c551a2000)
        libexpat.so.1 => /usr/lib64/libexpat.so.1 (0x00007f4c54f77000)
        libbz2.so.1 => /usr/lib64/libbz2.so.1 (0x00007f4c54d68000)
        libpcre.so.1 => /usr/lib64/libpcre.so.1 (0x00007f4c54af8000)
        libdbus-1.so.3 => /lib64/libdbus-1.so.3 (0x00007f4c548b1000)
        libgraphite2.so.3 => /usr/lib64/libgraphite2.so.3 (0x00007f4c54688000)
        libxcb-dri3.so.0 => /usr/lib64/libxcb-dri3.so.0 (0x00007f4c54485000)
        libxcb-present.so.0 => /usr/lib64/libxcb-present.so.0 (0x00007f4c54282000)
        libxshmfence.so.1 => /usr/lib64/libxshmfence.so.1 (0x00007f4c5407e000)
        libglapi.so.0 => /usr/lib64/libglapi.so.0 (0x00007f4c53e50000)
        libXdamage.so.1 => /usr/lib64/libXdamage.so.1 (0x00007f4c53c4d000)
        libXfixes.so.3 => /usr/lib64/libXfixes.so.3 (0x00007f4c53a46000)
        libxcb-glx.so.0 => /usr/lib64/libxcb-glx.so.0 (0x00007f4c5382e000)
        libxcb-dri2.so.0 => /usr/lib64/libxcb-dri2.so.0 (0x00007f4c53629000)
        libXxf86vm.so.1 => /usr/lib64/libXxf86vm.so.1 (0x00007f4c53422000)
        libdrm.so.2 => /usr/lib64/libdrm.so.2 (0x00007f4c53213000)
        libicudata.so.52.1 => /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.52.1 (0x00007f4c53011000)
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