#15717 closed defect (fixed)
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS: xcb not found
Reported by: | 0x0000.ru | Owned by: | |
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Component: | GUI | Version: | VirtualBox 5.1.2 |
Keywords: | ubuntu xcb | Cc: | |
Guest type: | other | Host type: | other |
Description
user@computer ~ $ virtualbox Qt FATAL: This application failed to start because it could not find or load the Qt platform plugin "xcb". Available platform plugins are: xcb. Reinstalling the application may fix this problem. Aborted
However, this trick helps run the GUI:
P=/usr/lib/virtualbox; sudo LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$P:$P/plugins/platforms $P/VirtualBox
may be related to https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/15634
Attachments (3)
Change History (15)
comment:1 by , 9 years ago
comment:2 by , 9 years ago
I have the exact same problem on my Mint 17.3 x32 XFCE machine. The above trick does work for me a well. I have QT 5.5 installed for development.
comment:3 by , 9 years ago
I would rather like to know why it works for me but apparently not for you. So if you want to help, please provide the output which I requsted in comment 1.
by , 9 years ago
by , 9 years ago
Attachment: | log_as_root.txt added |
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comment:6 by , 9 years ago
Thanks for the log. I found one problem which (for some reason) did not trigger on my Ubuntu 14.04 environment, no idea why. Could you test if this test build fixes the problem for you? Thank you!
by , 9 years ago
Attachment: | log_110225_i386.txt added |
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comment:9 by , 9 years ago
No, the problem is not solved for the i386. But I found out that the amd64 build works well. I used for the research a fresh install of Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS
comment:10 by , 9 years ago
That was it. I thought it's a systematic bug but actually it was a problem specific to 32-bit. Will be fixed in 5.1.4.
Cannot reproduce. Please do the following as root:
and attach the resulting file log.txt to this ticket. I guess there is some pending qt.conf file.