“Failed to load platform plugin ”xcb“ ” while laun

问题:

I wrote application for linux which uses Qt5.

But when I am trying to launch it on the linux without Qt SDK installed, the output in console is:

Failed to load platform plugin "xcb". Available platforms are:

How can I fix this? May be I need to copy some plugin file? When I use ubuntu with Qt5 installed, but I rename Qt directory, the same problem occurs. So, it uses some file from Qt directory...

UPDATE: when I create in the app dir "platforms" folder with the file libqxcb.so, the app still doesnot start, but the error message changes:

Failed to load platform plugin "xcb". Available platforms are:

xcb

How can this happen? How can platform plugin be available but can't be loaded?

回答1:

Use ldd (man ldd) to show shared library dependencies. Running this on libqxcb.so

.../platforms$ ldd libqxcb.so

shows that xcb depends on libQt5DBus.so.5 in addition to libQt5Core.so.5 and libQt5Gui.so.5 (and many other system libs). Add libQt5DBus.so.5 to your collection of shared libs and you should be ready to move on.

回答2:

As was posted earlier, you need to make sure you install the platform plugins when you deploy your application. Depending on how you want to deploy things, there are two methods to tell your application where the platform plugins (e.g. platforms/plugins/libqxcb.so) are at runtime which may work for you.

The first is to export the path to the directory through the QT_QPA_PLATFORM_PLUGIN_PATH variable.

QT_QPA_PLATFORM_PLUGIN_PATH=path/to/plugins ./my_qt_app

or

export QT_QPA_PLATFORM_PLUGIN_PATH=path/to/plugins
./my_qt_app

The other option, which I prefer is to create a qt.conf file in the same directory as your executable. The contents of which would be:

[Paths]
Plugins=/path/to/plugins

More information regarding this can be found here and at using qt.conf

回答3:

I tried to start my binary, compiled with Qt 5.7, on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS where Qt 5.5 is preinstalled. Expectedly, it didn't work as is.

At first, I inspected the binary itself with ldd as was suggested here, and satisfied all "not found" dependencies. Then this notorious This application failed to start because it could not find or load the Qt platform plugin "xcb" error was thrown in.

What should be done on Linux to resolve this

At first, you should create platforms directory where your binary is, because it is the place where Qt looks for XCB library. Copy libqxcb.so there. I wonder why authors of other answers didn't mention this.

Then you may want to run your binary with QT_DEBUG_PLUGINS=1 environment variable set to check what dependencies of libqxcb.so unsatisfied. (You may also use ldd for this as suggested in the accepted answer).

The command output may look like this:

me@xerus:/media/sf_Qt/Package$ LD_LIBRARY_PATH=. QT_DEBUG_PLUGINS=1 ./Binary
QFactoryLoader::QFactoryLoader() checking directory path "/media/sf_Qt/Package/platforms" ...
QFactoryLoader::QFactoryLoader() looking at "/media/sf_Qt/Package/platforms/libqxcb.so"
Found metadata in lib /media/sf_Qt/Package/platforms/libqxcb.so, metadata=
{
    "IID": "org.qt-project.Qt.QPA.QPlatformIntegrationFactoryInterface.5.3",
    "MetaData": {
        "Keys": [
            "xcb"
        ]
    },
    "className": "QXcbIntegrationPlugin",
    "debug": false,
    "version": 329472
}


Got keys from plugin meta data ("xcb")
loaded library "/media/sf_Qt/Package/platforms/libqxcb.so"
QLibraryPrivate::loadPlugin failed on "/media/sf_Qt/Package/platforms/libqxcb.so" : "Cannot load library /media/sf_Qt/Package/platforms/libqxcb.so: (/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libQt5DBus.so.5: version `Qt_5' not found (required by ./libQt5XcbQpa.so.5))"
This application failed to start because it could not find or load the Qt platform plugin "xcb"
in "".

Available platform plugins are: xcb.

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

Note the failing libQt5DBus.so.5 library. Copy it to your libraries path, in my case it was the same directory where my binary is (hence LD_LIBRARY_PATH=.). Repeat this process until all dependencies are satisfied.

P.S. thanks to the author of this answer for QT_DEBUG_PLUGINS=1.

回答4:

Since version 5, Qt uses a platform abstraction system (QPA) to abstract from the underlying platform.

The implementation for each platform is provided by plugins. For X11 it is the XCB plugin. See Qt for X11 requirements for more information about the dependencies.

回答5:

Ubuntu 16.04 64bit. I got the problem for apparently no reasons. The night before I watched a movie on my VideoLan instance, that night I would like to watch another one with VideoLan. VLC just didn't want to run because of the error into the question. I google a bit and I found the solution it solved my problem: from now on, VLC is runnable just like before. The solution is this comand:

sudo ln -sf /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/plugins/platforms/ /usr/bin/

I am not able to explain what are its consequencies, but I know it creates some missing symbolic link.

回答6:

I tried the main parts of each answer, to no avail. What finally fixed it for me was to export the following environment variables:

LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib:~/Qt/5.9.1/gcc_64/lib
QT_QPA_PLATFORM_PLUGIN_PATH=~/Qt/5.9.1/gcc_64/plugins/ 

回答7:

In my case, I needed to deploy two Qt apps on an Ubuntu virtualbox guest. One was command-line ("app"), the other GUI_based ("app_GUI").

I used "ldd app" to find out what the required libs are, and copied them to the Ubuntu guest. While the command-line executable "app" worked ok, the GUI-based executable crashed, giving the "Failed to load platform plugin "xcb" error. I checked ldd for libxcb.so, but this too had no missing dependencies.

The problem seemed to be that while I did copy all the right libraries I accidentally had copied also libraries that were already present at the guest system.. meaning that (a) they were unnecessary to copy them in the first place and (b) worse, copying them produced incompatibilities between the install libraries. Worse still, they were undetectable by ldd like I said..

The solution? Make sure that you copy libraries shown as missing by ldd and absolutely no extra libraries.

回答8:

I faced the same problem when after installing Viber. It had all required qt libraries in /opt/viber/plugins/. I checked dependencies of /opt/viber/plugins/platforms/libqxcb.so and found missing dependencies. They were libxcb-render.so.0, libxcb-image.so.0, libxcb-icccm.so.4, libxcb-xkb.so.1 So I resolved my issue by installing missing packages with this libraries:

apt-get install libxcb-xkb1 libxcb-icccm4 libxcb-image0 libxcb-render-util0

回答9:

I like the solution with qt.conf.

Put qt.conf near to the executable with next lines:

[Paths]
Prefix = /path/to/qtbase

And it works like a charm :^)

回答10:

Probably this will help. I'm using Ubuntu 18.04 and when I installed Krita using the ppa method. I got this error:

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

Available platform plugins are: linuxfb, minimal, minimalegl, offscreen, wayland-egl, wayland, xcb.

Reinstalling the application may fix this problem. Aborted

I tried all the solutions that I found in this thread and other webs without success.

Finally, I found a post where the author mention that is possible to activate the debugging told of qt5 using this simple command:

export QT_DEBUG_PLUGINS=1

After adding this command I run again krita I got the same error how ever now I know the cause.

libxcb-xinerama.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory.

This error prevents to the "xcb" to load properly. So the solution will be install the `libxcb-xinerama.so.0" right? However, when I run the command:

sudo apt install libxcb-xinerama

I the lib was installed. So I used an old trick yeah --reinstall

sudo apt install --reinstall libxcb-xinerama

This last command solved my problem.

回答11:

So, I spent about a day trying to figure out what was the issue; tried all the proposed solutions, but none of that worked like installing xcb libs or exporting Qt plugins folder. The solution that suggested to use QT_DEBUG_PLUGINS=1 to debug the issue didn't provide me a direct insight like in the answer - instead I was getting something about unresolved symbols within Qt5Core.

That gave me a hint, though: what if it's trying to use different files from different Qt installations? On my machine I had standard version installed in /home/username/Qt/ and some local builds within my project that I compiled by myself (I have other custom built kits as well in other locations). Whenever I tried to use any of the kits (installed by Qt maintenance tool or built by myself), I would get an "xcb error".

The solution was simple: provide the Qt path through CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH and not though Qt5_DIR as I did, and it solved the problem. Example:

cmake .. -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=/home/username/Qt/5.11.1/gcc_64

回答12:

I link all Qt stuff statically to the generic Linux builds of my open source projects. It makes life a bit easier. You just need to build static versions of Qt libraries first. Of course this cannot be applied to closed source software due to licensing issues. The deployment of Qt5 apps on Linux is currently a bit problematic, because Ubuntu 12.04, for example, doesn't have Qt5 libraries in the package repositories.

回答13:

I had this problem, and on a hunch I removed the Qt Configs from my environment. I.e.,

rm -rf ~/.config/Qt*

Then I started qtcreator and it reconfigured itself with the existing state of the machine. It no longer remembered where my projects were, but that just meant I had to browse to them "for the first time" again.

But more importantly it built itself a coherent set of library paths, so I could rebuild and run my project executables again without the xcb or qxcb libraries going missing.

回答14:

sudo ln -sf /usr/lib/...."adapt-it"..../qt5/plugins/platforms/ /usr/bin/

It creates the symbolic link it's missed. Good for QT ! Good for VLC !!