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jronald

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Registered: 2022-05-09

Posts: 218

[SOLVED] QtCreator failed to load plugin "Help" after recent update

After recent updates, log:

[2023-05-16T12:44:44+0800] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman -Syu'
[2023-05-16T12:44:44+0800] [PACMAN] synchronizing package lists
[2023-05-16T12:44:46+0800] [PACMAN] starting full system upgrade
[2023-05-16T12:44:57+0800] [ALPM] transaction started
[2023-05-16T12:44:57+0800] [ALPM] upgraded liblc3 (1.0.2-1 -> 1.0.3-1)
[2023-05-16T12:44:57+0800] [ALPM] upgraded litehtml (0.6-2 -> 0.7-1)
[2023-05-16T12:44:57+0800] [ALPM] upgraded qt6-tools (6.5.0-4 -> 6.5.0-5)
[2023-05-16T12:44:57+0800] [ALPM] transaction completed
[2023-05-16T12:44:57+0800] [ALPM] running '30-systemd-update.hook'...

QtCreator reports:

The following plugins have errors and cannot be loaded:
Help
Details:
/usr/lib/qtcreator/plugins/libHelp.so: Cannot load library /usr/lib/qtcreator/plugins/libHelp.so: (/usr/lib/qtcreator/plugins/../libqlitehtml.so.10: undefined symbol: _ZN8litehtml7context22load_master_stylesheetEPKc)

More info:
QtCreator is running while doing the updates above.

Last edited by jronald (2023-05-16 06:14:30)

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

Posts: 13,729

Re: [SOLVED] QtCreator failed to load plugin "Help" after recent update

it would appear that litehtml broke their ABI without changing the soname. I don't know if they guarantee a stable ABI or not. Start with a bug report against the qtcreator package, a simple rebuild will likely fix it.

jronald

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Registered: 2022-05-09

Posts: 218

Re: [SOLVED] QtCreator failed to load plugin "Help" after recent update

Reported: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/78528