qt.qpa.xcb: QXcbConnection: XCB error: on Raspberry Pi 3B

California

Ok, I will put together a simple example with only QT5 involved...

California

Here we are, I had SD card with fresh Raspbian OS installed (desctop version).
Only QT5 (version 5.15.2) installed with commands posted above and smallest possible code example.

app.py

import sys
from PyQt5.QtWidgets import QApplication, QWidget
if __name__ == "__main__":
    app = QApplication(sys.argv)
    w = QWidget()
    w.resize(300,300)
    w.setWindowTitle("QT5 example")
    w.show()
    sys.exit(app.exec_())

Warning messages (2):

libEGL warning: DRI2: failed to authenticate
qt.qpa.xcb: QXcbConnection: XCB error: 148 (Unknown), sequence: 191, resource id: 0, major code: 140 (Unknown), minor code: 20

hskoglund

Hi, just tried your example on my Raspberry Pi 4 and it works fine (I get a small blank window with the title "Qt5 example").

Don't know if it's relevant, but I'm still on Debian 10 (Buster) where the default distro Qt version is 5.11.3:

henry@tungware1:~ $ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID:	Raspbian
Description:	Raspbian GNU/Linux 10 (buster)
Release:	10
Codename:	buster
henry@tungware1:~ $ sudo apt-get install qt5-default
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
qt5-default is already the newest version (5.11.3+dfsg1-1+rpi1+deb10u4).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
henry@tungware1:~ $ sudo apt-get install python3-pyqt5
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
python3-pyqt5 is already the newest version (5.11.3+dfsg-1+rpi1+b3).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

I connect to my Raspberry PU using an old Samsung 22" monitor with just one HDMI connector and 1920x1080 resolution.

California

Well, you have an old release of Raspbian (10 Buster) and qt5 version 5.11.3 in my case Raspbian is the newest release 11 - Bullseye and qt5 version 5.15.2.

hskoglund

Perhaps the video output differ, what monitor do you use and is it connected through HDMI?

California

I don't have any monitor connected to RPi, I am working over VNC ... and with buster OS and qt5-5.11.3 no warning messages were appeared...

hskoglund

I remember trying VNC but I could not get Youtube to work over it :-(
Does Youtube work for you?

California

@SGaist said in qt.qpa.xcb: QXcbConnection: XCB error: on Raspberry Pi 3B:

Do you have the same issue if you just show a simple widget ?

Any news about this topic?

SGaist

Can you give the full explanation of your work setup ?

You started with issues related to Xorg but now you wrote that you are connecting to your Pi through VNC.

How did you setup everything ?
Is it the exact same setup as with Debian 10 ?

California

Thanks for your collaboration. I usualy did installation over ssh and everything worked ok until last update of raspbian. I did follow sugestions of yours and start fresh installation without enabled ssh and vnc. This time I got only one warning message shown below:

libEGL warning: DRI2: failed to authenticate

Is this one solvable, couse everything else works ok now?
Thanks for help,

Vlado

SGaist

This RaspberryPI Stack Exchange thread might help.

California

Update to topic: it seems that warning message below happends on RPi3B, but not on RPi3B+

qt.qpa.xcb: QXcbConnection: XCB error: 148 (Unknown), sequence: 191, resource id: 0, major code: 140 (Unknown), minor code: 20

I just took SD card with my app from my hardware system where RPi3B is heart of it and I put it into my test RPi3B+ and I noticed no such a warning message appeared in terminal...so it's strange...

For warning message:

libEGL warning: DRI2: failed to authenticate

I will do complete new SD software installation and result will be posted here...
Regards, Vlado