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gericom

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As of today update CANNOT start the desktop
« on: 2015/09/18, 22:35:40 »
 This application failed to start because it could not find or load the Qt platform plugin "xcb".
Available plugins are linuxfb, minimal, Wayland...

It is impossible to start the desktop, even sddm.
« Last Edit: 2015/09/18, 22:52:30 by gericom »

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Re: As of today update CANNOT start the desktop
« Reply #1 on: 2015/09/19, 07:25:35 »
You are probably missing libx11-xcb1.


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gericom

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Re: As of today update CANNOT start the desktop
« Reply #2 on: 2015/09/19, 08:05:11 »
Nope, it is installed. Sometimes I am using kde-experimental repos. But libx11-xcb1 is installed. I have updated some qt5 libs last night and everything went broken.
« Last Edit: 2015/09/19, 08:25:22 by gericom »

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Re: As of today update CANNOT start the desktop
« Reply #3 on: 2015/09/19, 09:27:26 »
you have two easy choices:
 * reinstall
 * rollback/downgrade
 
the third choice is also easy - reinstall, congratulations, you messed up qt and kde badly.
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gericom

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Re: As of today update CANNOT start the desktop
« Reply #4 on: 2015/09/19, 09:35:30 »
Thanks, I will try that tonight, when I am back and will report.

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Re: As of today update CANNOT start the desktop
« Reply #5 on: 2015/09/19, 10:01:16 »
dont mix Qt/KDE sid with experimental - it will break, thats intentional
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gericom

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Re: As of today update CANNOT start the desktop
« Reply #6 on: 2015/09/19, 12:51:36 »
Ya, I know that, but sometimes I am getting stupid  ;D so can you tell me which are the siduction experimental repos, which are not intended to be used from normal user.
Thanks a lot.

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Re: As of today update CANNOT start the desktop
« Reply #7 on: 2015/09/19, 13:35:14 »
Quote from: gericom
...Sometimes I am using kde-experimental repos...
...so can you tell me which are the siduction experimental repos, which are not intended to be used from normal user.

probably the entries in your sources.list.d files with "experimental" in the name that _YOU_ added.

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« Last Edit: 2015/09/19, 13:38:30 by horo »
omnia vincit pecunia :(

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Re: As of today update CANNOT start the desktop
« Reply #8 on: 2015/09/19, 14:29:54 »
@gericom - rule of thumb - don't take Qt and Qt based packages from experimental - it must break. I have a sample from a packages maintained by myself:

sid: https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=liblxqt&suite=sid

experimental: https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=liblxqt&suite=experimental
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Dependency installability problem for liblxqt on ppc64:

liblxqt build-depends on:
- ppc64:libqt5xdg-dev
ppc64:libqt5xdg-dev depends on:
- ppc64:libqt5xdg1 (= 1.2.0+20150807-1)
ppc64:libqt5xdg1 depends on missing:
- ppc64:qtbase-abi-5-4-2
Because of Qt 5.5 in experimental wich will break the ABI (and the virtual dependency). In other, warmer words: snafu 8)
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Re: As of today update CANNOT start the desktop
« Reply #9 on: 2015/09/19, 14:35:56 »
erm - and the discussion about kdenext you will find in another very popular thread - i say nothing pro/against kdenext - but recommend that one should stay far away from kdenext/experimental, the name is program and this repo is for development only - so it will indeed kill kittens and other lovely pets.
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