Bug 22159

Summary:	VLC does not start (could not find or load the Qt platform plugin "wayland")
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Nicolas Peifer <nic>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	6
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	vlc-3.0.0-0.git.19.mga6.src.rpm	CVE:
Status comment:

Description Nicolas Peifer 2017-12-09 12:27:49 CET

Description of problem:
I cannot start VLC on my Mageia 6 system (with Gnome 3.24.2). When I try to start VLC on command line, it produces the following output:

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$ vlc
VLC media player 3.0.0-git Vetinari (revision 2.2.0-git-12711-gc99321fbb3)
[0000000001e8f1c8] core libvlc: Running vlc with the default interface. Use 'cvlc' to use vlc without interface.
This application failed to start because it could not find or load the Qt platform plugin "wayland"
in "".

Available platform plugins are: eglfs, linuxfb, minimal, minimalegl, offscreen, xcb.

Reinstalling the application may fix this problem.
Aborted (core dumped)
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Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
3.0.0-0.git.19.mga6

How reproducible:
On Mageia 6 with Gnome 3.24.2.

Steps to Reproduce (on command line):
1. dnf install vlc
2. vlc

Comment 1 Nicolas Peifer 2017-12-09 12:38:25 CET

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*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 21718 ***

Resolution: (none) => DUPLICATE
Status: NEW => RESOLVED