miktex-console failed to start because no Qt platform plugin could be initialized.

[marcohernandez-git]

• I have read and acknowledged this HOWTO article:
  Submitting a MiKTeX problem report
  I updated MikTex today, and now the miktex-console fails to start and I get an error windows with the message "application failed to start because no Qt platform plugin could be initialized,..". MikTex works, just the miktex-console fails to start after the update. I submit the miktex-report and logs.
  miktex-report.txt
  log.zip

[tfrank1971]

same for me (#1488)

[edocevoli]

Maybe another Qt6 installation is in the way. Please open a command prompt and enter

set PATH=%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Programs\MiKTeX\miktex\bin\x64;%PATH%
miktex-console.exe

[edocevoli]

Please also try this workaround: #1486 (comment)

[tfrank1971]

ok, confirmed, #1486 works.
Thanks!

[marcohernandez-git]

Yes, the workaround works.
Thank you very much.

[twahz]

Same problem, don't know how to fix it at the moment

[Yery]

My colleague had the same problem, and the only solution we found was manually removing miktex altogether (as the console refused to open). This was before we discovered this thread. Now I did just try updating on my own PC, had the same problem and the solution from the workaround posted in the other thread does work. However, not everyone will be able to find their way to github, so there is an urgent need to have this fixed!

[twahz]

Go to this (https://ctan.net/systems/win32/miktex/tm/packages/)
download miktex-qt6-bin-x64.tar.lzma
Unzip and copy to the appropriate folder