qt.qpa.plugin: Could not load the Qt platform plugin “xcb” in “” even though it was found. in ubuntu 20.04
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wrote on 25 Jan 2021, 18:12 last edited by
How should I solve this problem in Ubuntu 20.04?
Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 keyqt.qpa.xcb: could not connect to display :0 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) Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 keyqt.qpa.xcb: could not connect to display :0 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) 2224/31772MB(vision)
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$ echo $DISPLAY :0
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$ python Python 3.8.5 (default, Jul 28 2020, 12:59:40) [GCC 9.3.0] on linux Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import inspect >>> from PyQt5 import Qt >>> vers = ['%s = %s' % (k,v) for k,v in vars(Qt).items() if k.lower().find('version') >= 0 and not inspect.isbuiltin(v)] >>> print('\n'.join(sorted(vers))) PYQT_VERSION = 331522 PYQT_VERSION_STR = 5.15.2 QOpenGLVersionProfile = <class 'PyQt5.QtGui.QOpenGLVersionProfile'> QOperatingSystemVersion = <class 'PyQt5.QtCore.QOperatingSystemVersion'> QT_VERSION = 331522 QT_VERSION_STR = 5.15.2 QVersionNumber = <class 'PyQt5.QtCore.QVersionNumber'>
As a minimal code to reproduce this error, you can run this:
$ cat test_qt.py ''' ==================== 3D plots as subplots ==================== Demonstrate including 3D plots as subplots. ''' import matplotlib.pyplot as plt from mpl_toolkits.mplot3d.axes3d import Axes3D, get_test_data from matplotlib import cm import numpy as np # set up a figure twice as wide as it is tall fig = plt.figure(figsize=plt.figaspect(0.5)) #=============== # First subplot #=============== # set up the axes for the first plot ax = fig.add_subplot(1, 2, 1, projection='3d') # plot a 3D surface like in the example mplot3d/surface3d_demo X = np.arange(-5, 5, 0.25) Y = np.arange(-5, 5, 0.25) X, Y = np.meshgrid(X, Y) R = np.sqrt(X**2 + Y**2) Z = np.sin(R) surf = ax.plot_surface(X, Y, Z, rstride=1, cstride=1, cmap=cm.coolwarm, linewidth=0, antialiased=False) ax.set_zlim(-1.01, 1.01) fig.colorbar(surf, shrink=0.5, aspect=10) #=============== # Second subplot #=============== # set up the axes for the second plot ax = fig.add_subplot(1, 2, 2, projection='3d') # plot a 3D wireframe like in the example mplot3d/wire3d_demo X, Y, Z = get_test_data(0.05) ax.plot_wireframe(X, Y, Z, rstride=10, cstride=10) plt.show() $ python test_qt.py Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 keyqt.qpa.xcb: could not connect to display :0 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)
$ qmake --version QMake version 3.1 Using Qt version 5.12.8 in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu
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Hi and welcome to devnet,
Please start your script with the QT_DEBUG_PLUGINS environment variable set to 1. It should give you more information about what is going on with the plugins.
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