Comment 7 for bug 1963276

Hi,

avdzm wrote:
> I saw on debian uses a newer version than what is on ubuntu mate's repo.

Right, I noticed this, too. (Was surprised how old the version in
20.04 is. But then again there were indeed a lot of qutebrowser
releases since early 2020.)

For Debian I could have been able to help out with Backports, but for
Ubuntu someone else would need to do that (in case it would have
helped in your case, too).

> So I have tried downloading source code for qutebrowser
> https://github.com/qutebrowser/qutebrowser/archive/refs/tags/v2.4.0.tar.gz
> run "setup.py install" runs successfully, but fails to launch with the same error message.
>
> CRITICAL: Could not initialize GLX

Thanks for testing this. Indeed interesting that this still shows up
with 2.4.0. This points towards the issue being indeed in the Qt
version of Ubuntu 20.04.

Have you tried upstream's suggestion in the Debian bug report and
installed and tried another web browser with the same rendering
engine, e.g. "falkon"?

If falkon fails with the same error, the cause of the issue is not in
qutebrowser. (But it is obviously affected nevertheless.)

> I'll post a bug report on qutebrowser's page.

Could help as well although I suspect that he will ask to try out
falkon as well. But maybe he knows a workaround (in case it's indeed a
Qt issue).

  Regards, Axel
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