[mythtv-users] running mythfrontend from command line on Ubuntu 20.04 fails

Stephen Worthington stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz
Sat Aug 1 15:29:03 UTC 2020


On Sat, 1 Aug 2020 08:56:39 -0400, you wrote:

>So I have a new installation of mythtv V31 on Ubuntu 20.04. Everything is
>working fine, but when I try to run mythfrontend from the command line I
>get this error:
>
>jim at mythbuntu:~$ mythfrontend
>qt.qpa.xcb: could not connect to display localhost:0.0
>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, xcb.
>
>Aborted (core dumped)
>
>It runs fine when I click on the app icon though.
>
>Has something changed?
>
>Jim A

It works fine for me in my VirtualBox 20.04 setup.  The difference
between the icon and the command line is that the icon has the
"--service" option.


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