Cannot get SSL to work with Qt6.5.2 on Linux

[Michel de Boer]

Hi, I am using Qt6.5.2 to send a HTTPS request. I am getting an error that SSL versions are incompatible:

• Incompatible version of OpenSSL (built with OpenSSL >= 3.x, runtime version is < 3.x)

However I have in stalled openssl 3:

> openssl version -a

OpenSSL 3.0.2 15 Mar 2022 (Library: OpenSSL 3.0.2 15 Mar 2022)
built on: Wed May 24 17:12:55 2023 UTC
platform: debian-amd64
options:  bn(64,64)
compiler: gcc -fPIC -pthread -m64 -Wa,--noexecstack -Wall -Wa,--noexecstack -g -O2 -ffile-prefix-map=/build/openssl-Z1YLmC/openssl-3.0.2=. -flto=auto -ffat-lto-objects -flto=auto -ffat-lto-objects -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -DOPENSSL_TLS_SECURITY_LEVEL=2 -DOPENSSL_USE_NODELETE -DL_ENDIAN -DOPENSSL_PIC -DOPENSSL_BUILDING_OPENSSL -DNDEBUG -Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2
OPENSSLDIR: "/usr/lib/ssl"
ENGINESDIR: "/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/engines-3"
MODULESDIR: "/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ossl-modules"
Seeding source: os-specific
CPUINFO: OPENSSL_ia32cap=0x7ffaf3bfffebffff:0x40000000029c67af

I added this debug info to see what version Qt thinks it is dealing with:

qDebug() << "Device supports OpenSSL: " << QSslSocket::supportsSsl();
qDebug() << "OpenSSL lib:" << QSslSocket::sslLibraryVersionString();
qDebug() << "OpenSSL lib build:" << QSslSocket::sslLibraryBuildVersionString();

I get the following output:

18:52:04.135 debug Xrpc::Client::Client'12 Device supports OpenSSL:  false
18:52:04.135 debug Xrpc::Client::Client'13 OpenSSL lib: ""
18:52:04.135 debug Xrpc::Client::Client'14 OpenSSL lib build: ""

It does not find any SSL versions, not in the build, not on the system. Yet the error says it is built with version 3.x

I am using open source version of Qt 6.5.2 installed with the maintenance tool.

Can someone help me on how to fix this?

[SGaist]

Hi,

Can you start your application with strace ? This should show where the OpenSSL library is searched for.

[Michel de Boer]

@SGaist Thanks for your quick reaction!

I ran it with strace and grepped its output for ssl. There are some errors in there:

readlink("/home/michel/Qt/6.5.2/gcc_64/plugins/tls/libqopensslbackend.so", 0x7ffd79596810, 1023) = -1 EINVAL (Invalid argument)
openat(AT_FDCWD, "/home/michel/Qt/6.5.2/gcc_64/plugins/tls/libqopensslbackend.so", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 36
readlink("/home/michel/Qt/6.5.2/gcc_64/plugins/tls/qopensslbackend.debug", 0x7ffd79596810, 1023) = -1 EINVAL (Invalid argument)
openat(AT_FDCWD, "/home/michel/Qt/6.5.2/gcc_64/plugins/tls/libqopensslbackend.so.avx2", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
access("/home/michel/Qt/6.5.2/gcc_64/plugins/tls/libqopensslbackend.so.avx2", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
openat(AT_FDCWD, "/home/michel/Qt/6.5.2/gcc_64/plugins/tls/libqopensslbackend.so", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 35
openat(AT_FDCWD, "/usr/local/ssl/lib/libcrypto.so", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 35
openat(AT_FDCWD, "/home/michel/Qt/6.5.2/gcc_64/lib/libssl.so", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
openat(AT_FDCWD, "/usr/local/ssl/lib/libssl.so", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 35

Not sure if the "Invalid argument" errors are fatal. The "no such file" errors seems to suggest I am missing some libs from the Qt installation.

I also grepped for "tls". That gives a lot of output. Here are the first few lines:

readlink("/home/michel/Qt/6.5.2/gcc_64/plugins/tls/libqopensslbackend.so", 0x7ffd79596810, 1023) = -1 EINVAL (Invalid argument)
openat(AT_FDCWD, "/home/michel/Qt/6.5.2/gcc_64/plugins/tls/libqopensslbackend.so", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 36
readlink("/home/michel/Qt/6.5.2/gcc_64/plugins/tls/qopensslbackend.debug", 0x7ffd79596810, 1023) = -1 EINVAL (Invalid argument)
openat(AT_FDCWD, "/home/michel/Qt/6.5.2/gcc_64/plugins/tls/libqopensslbackend.so.avx2", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
access("/home/michel/Qt/6.5.2/gcc_64/plugins/tls/libqopensslbackend.so.avx2", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
openat(AT_FDCWD, "/home/michel/Qt/6.5.2/gcc_64/plugins/tls/libqopensslbackend.so", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 35
openat(AT_FDCWD, "/usr/local/ssl/lib/libcrypto.so", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 35
openat(AT_FDCWD, "/home/michel/Qt/6.5.2/gcc_64/lib/libssl.so", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
openat(AT_FDCWD, "/usr/local/ssl/lib/libssl.so", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 35

Similar errors pointing at missing libs.

[SGaist]

Something is looking strange, why do you have OpenSSL in /usr/local/ssl ? That's not a standard place for a distribution provided library.

[Michel de Boer]

@SGaist You are right!
Several months ago I had an issue with openssl 3. To work around it I installed openssl 1 in /usr/local. I just removed it and now it all works!
Thanks for your help!

[SGaist]

Great !

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