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Bug#860839: vlc fails to start due to missing QT platform plugin xcb



unmerge 860839 809989
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On viernes, 21 de abril de 2017 13:51:23 -03 Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez 
Meyer wrote:
> On jueves, 20 de abril de 2017 22:18:42 -03 Sebastian Ramacher wrote:
> > Control: reassign -1 src:qtbase-opensource-src 5.5.1+dfsg-13
> > Control: forcemerge -1 809989
> > 
> > On 2017-04-20 15:56:39, Harlan Lieberman-Berg wrote:
> > > Package: src:vlc
> > > Version: 2.2.5-1
> > > Severity: grave
> > > Justification: renders package unusable
> > > 
> > > Hello maintainer,
> > > 
> > > For vlc installed on stretch freshly after a `apt install vlc`, it
> > > refuses
> > > to open while complaining about a failure to find the xcb Qt module.
> > 
> > That's #809989. Please check with the Qt maintainers if the issue still
> > persists.
> 
> That can't be. The XCB plugin is part of libqt5gui5 which is a direct
> dependency of VLC (or vlc-plugins-qt).
> 
> So if Harlan can reproduce it then there is something else going on.

And indeed it is. The last lines of the log says:

This application failed to start because it could not find or load the Qt 
platform plugin "xcb"
in "".

"" should not be empty.

Please send us the output of the following commands:

qmake -query
qmake -qt5 -query
qmake -qt4 -qury


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