Re: Bug#811036: wireshark-qt: aborts immediately

[Bálint Réczey <balint@balintreczey.hu>]

Hi Olaf,

2016-01-15 5:51 GMT+01:00 Olaf Meeuwissen <olaf.meeuwissen@avasys.jp>:
> Package: wireshark-qt
> Version: 2.0.0+g9a73b82-1
> Severity: grave
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> I tried starting wireshark from the comman-line and it immediately
> aborted.  Like so:
>
>   $ wireshark
>   This application failed to start because it could not find or load the Qt platform plugin "xcb".
>
>   Available platform plugins are: linuxfb, minimal, minimalegl, offscreen.
>
>   Reinstalling the application may fix this problem.
>   Aborted
>
> I had expected it to start like it used to do.  I don't recall when I
> last used it.  I keep my system up-to-date with unattended-upgrades and
> my logs indicate wireshark-qt was installed on 2015-12-01 with the
> upgrade of wireshark from 1.12.8+g5b6e543-2 to 2.0.0+g9a73b82-1.  I do
> remember being surprised at the changed look-and-feel of wireshark, so I
> am pretty sure that I have run wireshark-qt successfully in the past.
Please install libqt5xcbqpa5 to let it run again.

I suspect you installed wireshark/libqt5gui5 with --no-install-recommends,
since libqt5gui5 recommends libqt5xcbqpa5:

Package: libqt5gui5
Source: qtbase-opensource-src
Version: 5.5.1+dfsg-12
Installed-Size: 7096
Maintainer: Debian Qt/KDE Maintainers <debian-qt-kde@lists.debian.org>
Architecture: amd64
...
Recommends: libqt5svg5, libqt5xcbqpa5

--no-install-recommends may cause parts of functionality not available
in packages.

It that was the case, please close the bug since the default behavior
of installing all
needed packages for proper operation was overridden.

BTW this looks like the following Qt bug appearing again which I just reopened:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=796956
KDE Mainainers may mark it as wontfix or solve the circular dependency
introduced by
the fix in a different way.

Cheers,
Balint

>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: stretch/sid
>   APT prefers testing
>   APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'testing-updates'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
...
> ii  libqt5gui5           5.5.1+dfsg-12
...