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Date:      Thu, 10 Nov 2016 10:28:19 +0200
From:      Tommi Pernila <tommi.pernila@iki.fi>
To:        "Alex V. Petrov" <alexvpetrov@gmail.com>
Cc:        Greg Rivers <gcr+freebsd-ports@tharned.org>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org,  vbox@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: emulators/virtualbox-ose start up error
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On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 12:36 AM, Alex V. Petrov <alexvpetrov@gmail.com>
wrote:

> For me helped rebuild qt5-gui.
>
>
> 10.11.2016 04:53, Greg Rivers =D0=BF=D0=B8=D1=88=D0=B5=D1=82:
> > As of today:
> >
> > $ VirtualBox Qt FATAL: This application failed to start because it coul=
d
> > not find or load the Qt platform plugin "xcb"
> > in "".
> >
> > Available platform plugins are: minimal, offscreen, xcb.
> >
> > Reinstalling the application may fix this problem.
> > Abort
> >
> >
> > I checked for recent changes and found this update from yesterday's pkg
> > upgrade:
> >
> >     Nov  8 21:30:50 w10 pkg: libxcb upgraded: 1.11.1 -> 1.12
> >
> > Does the virtualbox-ose package need to be updated to chase the libxcb
> > update?
> >
>
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> Alex.
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The manual forcing of the reinstall of qt5-gui solved the issue for me.
>From the PR description

"Manually running "pkg upgrade -f qt5-gui" helps, but it is IMHO a problem/=
bug."


-Tommi



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