Hi Emily, we’re working on this now and a fix will be released within the next couple days.

best,

Andrew

From: <freesurfer-bounces@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu> on behalf of Emily Levin <elevin3@bu.edu>
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Date: Friday, November 2, 2018 at 11:49 AM
To: FS Help <freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu>
Cc: Maximilian King <maximilian_king@brown.edu>
Subject: [Freesurfer] Freeview xcb error

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Hi Freesurfer experts,

I'm using redhat 7 so I installed the development centos7 version of freesurfer:

https://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/pub/dist/freesurfer/dev/

I followed the installation instructions and it is having issues with xcb from qt when I try and run freeview:

freeview

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

in "".

Reinstalling the application may fix this problem.

Aborted (core dumped)

I have a previously installed version of freesurfer (6.0) that is statically linked to qt and it runs freeview fine.

I already tried setting the QT_QPA_PLATFORM_PLUGIN_PATH environment variable for my qt/5.10.1 plugins directory that contains xcb. 

Also see the attached output of ldd on freeview.

Do you have any other thoughts or actions I can take?

Thank you,

Emily

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Emily J. Levin

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Attention & Perception Neuroimaging Lab

Boston University

Lab: 617-358-1737