Solvedphantomjs QXcbConnection: Could not connect to display

1. Which version of PhantomJS are you using? Tip: run phantomjs --version.
   2.1.1
2. What steps will reproduce the problem?
   1. Take a working javascript file (e.g. rasterize.js)
   2. Call the file from a script file (e.g. executable file, #!/bin/sh at the start)
   3. Now execute the script file as a cron job
3. Which operating system are you using?
   Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
4. Did you use binary PhantomJS or did you compile it from source?
   Binary - installed it as part of Ubuntu (using apt).
5. Please provide any additional information below.
   This is very similar to #14240, but I am using the stock version of PhantomJS (with Ubuntu). Below is the output from running the cron job (which calls the script file, to generate a pdf file once a day) ...

QXcbConnection: Could not connect to display
PhantomJS has crashed. Please read the bug reporting guide at
http://phantomjs.org/bug-reporting.html and file a bug report.
Aborted (core dumped)

Thanks!

can confirm export QT_QPA_PLATFORM=offscreen before selenium scripts work's well.

The offscreen platform is a usable workaround for me with the stock Ubuntu package. This works for me:

QT_QPA_PLATFORM=offscreen phantomjs rasterize.js 2i8zaNg04d9B41Zir2kT3J/output.html 2i8zaNg04d9B41Zir2kT3J.png

@3zzy the steps I used are as follows:
wget https://bitbucket.org/ariya/phantomjs/downloads/phantomjs-2.1.1-linux-x86_64.tar.bz2
bzip2 -d phantomjs-2.1.1-linux-x86_64.tar.bz2
tar -xvf phantomjs-2.1.1-linux-x86_64.tar
cp phantomjs-2.1.1-linux-x86_64/bin/phantomjs /usr/bin/phantomjs

Does this help your case?

We finally got things working by downloading the binary at https://bitbucket.org/ariya/phantomjs/downloads/phantomjs-2.1.1-linux-x86_64.tar.bz2 and extracting the phantomjs to /usr/bin

Please check your environment variable QT_QPA_PLATFORM. It must be empty.