Could not load the Qt platform plugin "xcb" in "" even though it was found.

ReuvenG

Hi guys!
I need your help.
I just installed a clean Xubuntu 20.04 OS and I ran this script I found to get my Streamdeck working

#!/bin/bash -xe
echo "Installing libraries"
sudo apt install libhidapi-hidraw0 libudev-dev libusb-1.0-0-dev
echo "Adding udev rules and reloading"
sudo usermod -a -G plugdev `whoami`

sudo tee /etc/udev/rules.d/99-streamdeck.rules << EOF
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="0fd9", ATTRS{idProduct}=="0060", MODE:="666", GROUP="plugdev"
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="0fd9", ATTRS{idProduct}=="0063", MODE:="666", GROUP="plugdev"
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="0fd9", ATTRS{idProduct}=="006c", MODE:="666", GROUP="plugdev"
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="0fd9", ATTRS{idProduct}=="006d", MODE:="666", GROUP="plugdev"
EOF

sudo udevadm control --reload-rules

echo "Unplug and replug in device for the new udev rules to take effect"
echo "Installing streamdeck_ui"
pip3 install --user streamdeck_ui
echo "If the installation was successful, run 'streamdeck' to start."

But when I run

streamdeck

I get the following error

Got keys from plugin meta data ("xcb")
QFactoryLoader::QFactoryLoader() checking directory path "/usr/bin/platforms" ...
Cannot load library /home/jl/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/PySide2/Qt/plugins/platforms/libqxcb.so: (libxcb-icccm.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)
QLibraryPrivate::loadPlugin failed on "/home/jl/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/PySide2/Qt/plugins/platforms/libqxcb.so" : "Cannot load library /home/jl/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/PySide2/Qt/plugins/platforms/libqxcb.so: (libxcb-icccm.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)"
qt.qpa.plugin: Could not load the Qt platform plugin "xcb" in "" even though it was found.
This application failed to start because no Qt platform plugin could be initialized. Reinstalling the application may fix this problem.

Available platform plugins are: eglfs, linuxfb, minimal, minimalegl, offscreen, vnc, wayland-egl, wayland, wayland-xcomposite-egl, wayland-xcomposite-glx, webgl, xcb.

Aborted (core dumped)

When I run

ldd

I get

ldd /home/jl/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/PySide2/Qt/plugins/platforms/libqxcb.so | grep "not found"
	libxcb-icccm.so.4 => not found
	libxcb-image.so.0 => not found
	libxcb-keysyms.so.1 => not found
	libxcb-render-util.so.0 => not found
	libxcb-xinerama.so.0 => not found
	libxcb-xkb.so.1 => not found
	libxkbcommon-x11.so.0 => not found
	libxcb-icccm.so.4 => not found
	libxcb-image.so.0 => not found
	libxcb-keysyms.so.1 => not found
	libxcb-render-util.so.0 => not found
	libxcb-xinerama.so.0 => not found
	libxcb-xkb.so.1 => not found
	libxkbcommon-x11.so.0 => not found

I ran a search for

libxcb-icccm.so.4

and it is no where to be found except in my OBS install. So I copied

libxcb-icccm.so.4

and

libxcb-icccm.so.4.0.0

and pasted them into

/home/jl/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/PySide2/Qt/plugins/platforms/

and tried running

streamdeck

again. But it didn't fix the problem. I got

Got keys from plugin meta data ("xcb")
**QFactoryLoader::QFactoryLoader() looking at "/home/jl/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/PySide2/Qt/plugins/platforms/libxcb-icccm.so.4"
"Failed to extract plugin meta data from '/home/jl/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/PySide2/Qt/plugins/platforms/libxcb-icccm.so.4.0.0'" 
         not a plugin
QFactoryLoader::QFactoryLoader() looking at "/home/jl/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/PySide2/Qt/plugins/platforms/libxcb-icccm.so.4.0.0"
"Failed to extract plugin meta data from '/home/jl/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/PySide2/Qt/plugins/platforms/libxcb-icccm.so.4.0.0'" 
         not a plugin**
QFactoryLoader::QFactoryLoader() checking directory path "/usr/bin/platforms" ...
Cannot load library /home/jl/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/PySide2/Qt/plugins/platforms/libqxcb.so: (libxcb-icccm.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)
QLibraryPrivate::loadPlugin failed on "/home/jl/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/PySide2/Qt/plugins/platforms/libqxcb.so" : "Cannot load library /home/jl/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/PySide2/Qt/plugins/platforms/libqxcb.so: (libxcb-icccm.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)"
qt.qpa.plugin: Could not load the Qt platform plugin "xcb" in "" even though it was found.
This application failed to start because no Qt platform plugin could be initialized. Reinstalling the application may fix this problem.

Available platform plugins are: eglfs, linuxfb, minimal, minimalegl, offscreen, vnc, wayland-egl, wayland, wayland-xcomposite-egl, wayland-xcomposite-glx, webgl, xcb.

Aborted (core dumped)

I'm new to Linux so I'm out of ideas.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!

JKSH

Hi, and welcome!

@ReuvenG said in Could not load the Qt platform plugin "xcb" in "" even though it was found.:

So I copied

libxcb-icccm.so.4

and

libxcb-icccm.so.4.0.0

and pasted them into

/home/jl/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/PySide2/Qt/plugins/platforms/

Don't do that. Use your package manager to install the missing libraries instead, for example: sudo apt-get install libxcb-iccm4

You must install all of the libraries that ldd reports as "Not found".

ReuvenG

@JKSH
This solved my problem.
Thanks for your help!

wtambellini

Same issue on CentOS7:
The user has to manually
ldd /opt/qtcreator-4.10.2/lib/Qt/plugins/platforms/libqxcb.so
then dig for each not found lib which package has to be installed:
sudo yum install xcb-util-keysyms
....
I would expect from QtCreator to at least properly warn the customer which libs are missing without having to
export QT_DEBUG_PLUGINS=1