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VictronConnect core dump in Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS

VictronConnect doesn't work anymore in Ubuntu Linux and just dumps core just after it has been started. Has anyone similar problems?

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Mihai answered ·

Hello,

Maybe this can help:

https://community.victronenergy.com/questions/261946/victronconnect-linux-appimage-v600beta-not-startin.html?childToView=266896#comment-266896

I have no problem in running the latest v6.x versions in Linux Mint 21.2.


Regards,

Mihai

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mirekn avatar image mirekn commented ·

Thanks for the hint. VictronConnect needs some libraries which are not installed by default, in my case I needed to install libxcb-cursor0 and libpq5. Now the application starts and runs, however from to time it crashes with segmentation fault.

VictronConnect[62997]: segfault at 8 ip 00007fbbfce0a91a sp 00007ffc1ec24ae0 error 4 in libQt6Core.so.6[7fbbfcd1d000+3bb000]

In my case they are still some unresolved libraries ( libQt6QuickShapes.so.6, libQt6EglFSDeviceIntegration.so.6, libQt6WlShellIntegration.so.6 ). Maybe on newer linuxes with qt6 available it will run without problems.



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victronconnect answered ·

Yes, I have the same problems with "Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS" and "VictronConnect-x86_64-v5.71.AppImage".

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mirekn avatar image mirekn commented ·
The same here. In my case latest working version is v5.101. v6.03 crashes on ubuntu 20.04.6 LTS.
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r4space answered ·

Anyone got any updates on this? If it doesn't work on Ubuntu I'd be surprised if it's working anywhere else but anyone got the latest appimage working on any other linux distro?

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Looks like the VC install should pull these libraries in automatically (see later posts)
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diederik answered ·

Same here.

Linux Mint 21.3

VictronConnect-x86_64-v6.03.AppImage

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diederik avatar image diederik commented ·

Same problem with VictronConnect-x86_64-v6.05AppImage

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c128 answered ·

Here's how I got the app running on Ubuntu 24.04 (will probably work on 22.04 etc.):

sudo apt install libxcb-cursor0 libpq5 libqt6*
chmod +x ./VictronConnect-x86_64-v6.05.AppImage
./VictronConnect-x86_64-v6.05.AppImage

I doubt the vast majority of the libqt6* libraries are actually required, but it's a little hard to identify which are. I would guess the packaging of the AppImage needs sorting out (or the extra packages required should be documented properly).

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diederik answered ·

I only needed to install libxcb-cursor0.

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