Hi there,

We have two systems running Ubuntu 20.4.3 LTS and we're able to launch Houdini 18.5.633 without a problem on both.

I recently installed the latest Google Chrome 96.0.4664.45 on one system, and then Houdini 19.0.383, which then fails on launch with the following error;

"Qt Error: 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. "

The other system, without the Google Chrome install, was able to run H19.0.383 without a hitch.

Even when trying to run 'hkey', there is the following error;

"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'd not seen anything when googling the error, but just wondered if anyone else had experienced this or knew of a fix. I've emailed support@sidefx.com but no reply yet.

Thanks very much,

Stuart Ramsden

Visualization Programmer
National Computational Infrastructure (NCI)
The Australian National University

For the record, this was fixed with "sudo apt-get install --reinstall libxcb-xinerama0".

I have same error on Debian and houdini 19.5 any solution?, thanks

I had a problem like that and I solved installing the qt6.

You shouldn't need to install Qt yourself as Houdini bundles it in. Did you try to install the package that Drew mentioned? It's possible that when you installed Qt it installed it as a dependency.

drew
For the record, this was fixed with "sudo apt-get install --reinstall libxcb-xinerama0".

Know this thread is a bit old but ran into the same issue on h20 and linux ubuntu 23.10, this solved the issue for me as well! Thanks!

Colemapt
sudo apt-get install --reinstall libxcb-xinerama0

Same: I have a fresh install of Ubuntu 23.10 and the Launcher won't run without that additional apt-get.

Try followings:
sudo apt install libxcb-icccm4
sudo apt install libxcb-image0
sudo apt install libxcb-keysyms1
sudo apt install libxcb-render-util0
sudo apt install libxcb-cursor0
sudo apt-get install -y libxcb-xinerama0-dev

We are in the process of updating the system requirements page, however the full list for Ubuntu is:


You can install them with the following command: