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

California

Hello, I did install last release of Raspbian OS on RPi-3B for my python project with QT5 GUI and an error occurs when app run. after that, everything works normally. With previous release of Raspbian OS no such errors happend. Searching over net gave me some results, but nothing helped in my case. What can I do to make sure no errors would occur again?
Here is small example of code to demonstrade the situation:

main.py


import gui
import sys
import datetime
import time



from PyQt5 import QtCore, QtGui, QtWidgets
from PyQt5.QtWidgets import QWidget, QApplication
from PyQt5.QtCore import QTimer
from PyQt5.QtGui import QPixmap

logIN_ON = False

#=============================================================================
#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
def add_image():
    qpixmap = QPixmap('/home/pi/Project/python_logo.png')
    master.label_login.setPixmap(qpixmap)
#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
def loging_in():
    global logIN_ON
    user_name = "asd"
    password = "123"
    
    u_n = master.lineEdit_user_name.text()
    p_w = master.lineEdit_password.text()

    if ((user_name == u_n) and (password == p_w)):
        logIN_ON = True
        add_image()
    else:
        logIN_ON = False
#=============================================================================

def time_show():
    now = datetime.datetime.now()
    master.Time.setText(now.strftime("%H" + ":" + "%M" + ":" + "%S"))

def prozenje():
    time_show()
    master.pushButton_Log_in.clicked.connect(loging_in)


if __name__ == "__main__":
    app = QtWidgets.QApplication(sys.argv)
    gui_master = gui.QtWidgets.QWidget()
    master = gui.Ui_Form()
    master.setupUi(gui_master)         
    timer = QTimer()
    timer.timeout.connect(prozenje)
    timer.start(1000)
    gui_master.show()
    sys.exit(app.exec_())

gui.py

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

# Form implementation generated from reading ui file 'gui.ui'
#
# Created by: PyQt5 UI code generator 5.15.2
#
# WARNING: Any manual changes made to this file will be lost when pyuic5 is
# run again.  Do not edit this file unless you know what you are doing.


from PyQt5 import QtCore, QtGui, QtWidgets


class Ui_Form(object):
    def setupUi(self, Form):
        Form.setObjectName("Form")
        Form.resize(445, 239)
        self.Time = QtWidgets.QLineEdit(Form)
        self.Time.setGeometry(QtCore.QRect(100, 30, 113, 30))
        self.Time.setObjectName("Time")
        self.pushButton_Log_in = QtWidgets.QPushButton(Form)
        self.pushButton_Log_in.setGeometry(QtCore.QRect(100, 170, 111, 30))
        self.pushButton_Log_in.setObjectName("pushButton_Log_in")
        self.lineEdit_user_name = QtWidgets.QLineEdit(Form)
        self.lineEdit_user_name.setGeometry(QtCore.QRect(100, 90, 113, 30))
        self.lineEdit_user_name.setObjectName("lineEdit_user_name")
        self.lineEdit_password = QtWidgets.QLineEdit(Form)
        self.lineEdit_password.setGeometry(QtCore.QRect(100, 130, 113, 30))
        self.lineEdit_password.setObjectName("lineEdit_password")
        self.label_login = QtWidgets.QLabel(Form)
        self.label_login.setGeometry(QtCore.QRect(250, 30, 151, 171))
        self.label_login.setText("")
        self.label_login.setObjectName("label_login")
        self.label = QtWidgets.QLabel(Form)
        self.label.setGeometry(QtCore.QRect(20, 90, 81, 22))
        self.label.setObjectName("label")
        self.label_2 = QtWidgets.QLabel(Form)
        self.label_2.setGeometry(QtCore.QRect(20, 130, 68, 22))
        self.label_2.setObjectName("label_2")
        self.label_3 = QtWidgets.QLabel(Form)
        self.label_3.setGeometry(QtCore.QRect(20, 30, 51, 22))
        self.label_3.setObjectName("label_3")

        self.retranslateUi(Form)
        QtCore.QMetaObject.connectSlotsByName(Form)

    def retranslateUi(self, Form):
        _translate = QtCore.QCoreApplication.translate
        Form.setWindowTitle(_translate("Form", "Form"))
        self.pushButton_Log_in.setText(_translate("Form", "Log IN"))
        self.label.setText(_translate("Form", "Username"))
        self.label_2.setText(_translate("Form", "Password"))
        self.label_3.setText(_translate("Form", "Time"))

An error message:

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

Regards, Vlado

SGaist

Hi,

Did you install everything from the package manager ?

California

Thanks for respond. Everything was installed on fresh copy of Raspberry Pi OS by commands below

sudo apt-get install qt5-default
sudo apt-get install python3-pyqt5 
sudo apt-get install pyqt5-dev-tools

then Project folder is copyed to:

/home/vlado/Project

in Project folder we call main.py to execute an app ...

SGaist

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

California

Yes, on the begining of this post is posted small example of python code for login in, which perfectly demonstrate the problem.

SGaist

What I meant is to run something that is really minimal just to ensure it's not something in your code that might do strange stuff.

Your code sample contains free functions that access an object created under the __main__ which is not the cleanest of design.

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