Re: [gentoo-user] Playsound . . . won't!

[Mick]

On Saturday 15 September 2007, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Sunday 16 September 2007, Mick wrote:
> > I am using playsound in KDE to play system sounds, but it has stopped
> > working:
> >
> > $ /usr/bin/playsound chimes.wav
> > /usr/bin/playsound: error while loading shared libraries:
> > libFLAC.so.7: cannot open shared object file: No such file or
> > directory
> >
> > I ran revdep-rebuild -X, but the problem persists.  Any ideas?
>
> I'll walk you through this the long way round:
>
> This is the clue: "libFLAC.so.7: cannot open shared object file: No such
> file"
>
> I also have no such file as libFLAC.so.7, but locate libFLAC.so found
> libFLAC.so.8, and 'equery belongs' tells me it belongs to
> media-libs/flac. 'genlop -t' declares this package was upgraded on my
> box from 1.1.2-r8 to 1.1.4 on 17 July.
>
> So obviously playsound was built against the old version, and
> revdep-rebuild can't find the old one so doesn't know what to do about
> it. And wisely does nothing about it...
>
> emerge flac
> revdep-rebuild -X
>
> will see you right.

Thanks guys,

I apologise for an incomplete description of the problem.  I should have 
provided some more info:

Remerging Flac goes through fine.

Revdep-rebuild -X seems to go through OK:
=========================================
# revdep-rebuild -X -p -v
Configuring search environment for revdep-rebuild

Checking reverse dependencies...

Packages containing binaries and libraries broken by a package update
will be emerged.

Collecting system binaries and libraries... done.
  (/root/.revdep-rebuild.1_files)

Collecting complete LD_LIBRARY_PATH... done.
  (/root/.revdep-rebuild.2_ldpath)

Checking dynamic linking consistency...
  broken /usr/bin/playsound (requires  libFLAC.so.7)
  broken /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libgstflac.so (requires  libFLAC.so.7)
  broken /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.8/libgstossaudio.so (requires  
libgstinterfaces-0.8.so.0)
  broken /usr/lib/libSDL_sound-1.0.so.1.0.0 (requires  libFLAC.so.7)
  broken /usr/lib/libakode_xiph_decoder.so (requires  libFLAC.so.7 
libOggFLAC.so.3)
  broken /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.8/libgstossaudio.la 
(requires /usr/lib/libgstinter
faces-0.8.la)
  broken /usr/lib/libakode_xiph_decoder.la (requires /usr/lib/libOggFLAC.la)
 done.
  (/root/.revdep-rebuild.3_rebuild)

Assigning files to packages...
  /usr/bin/playsound -> media-libs/sdl-sound
  /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libgstflac.so -> media-plugins/gst-plugins-flac
  /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.8/libgstossaudio.so -> media-plugins/gst-plugins-oss
  /usr/lib/libSDL_sound-1.0.so.1.0.0 -> media-libs/sdl-sound
  /usr/lib/libakode_xiph_decoder.so -> media-libs/akode
  /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.8/libgstossaudio.la -> media-plugins/gst-plugins-oss
  /usr/lib/libakode_xiph_decoder.la -> media-libs/akode
 done.
  
(/root/.revdep-rebuild.4_packages_raw, /root/.revdep-rebuild.4_package_owners)

Cleaning list of packages to rebuild... done.
  (/root/.revdep-rebuild.4_packages)

Assigning packages to ebuilds... done.
  (/root/.revdep-rebuild.4_ebuilds)

Evaluating package order... done.
  (/root/.revdep-rebuild.5_order)

Dynamic linking on your system is consistent... All done.
=========================================

playsound still won't play:
=========================================
$ /usr/bin/playsound MUSIC/chimes.wav 
/usr/bin/playsound: error while loading shared libraries: libFLAC.so.7: cannot 
open shared object file: No such file or directory
=========================================

I also noticed that libFLAC.so.7 is not there:
=========================================
# ls -la /usr/lib/libFLAC*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 104084 Sep 17 08:06 /usr/lib/libFLAC++.a
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    850 Sep 17 08:05 /usr/lib/libFLAC++.la
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     18 Sep 17 08:06 /usr/lib/libFLAC++.so -> 
libFLAC++.so.6.0.1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     18 Sep 17 08:06 /usr/lib/libFLAC++.so.6 -> 
libFLAC++.so.6.0.1
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  93980 Sep 17 08:06 /usr/lib/libFLAC++.so.6.0.1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 266278 Sep 17 08:06 /usr/lib/libFLAC.a
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    820 Sep 17 08:05 /usr/lib/libFLAC.la
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     16 Sep 17 08:06 /usr/lib/libFLAC.so -> 
libFLAC.so.8.0.1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     16 Sep 17 08:06 /usr/lib/libFLAC.so.8 -> 
libFLAC.so.8.0.1
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 192012 Sep 17 08:06 /usr/lib/libFLAC.so.8.0.1
=========================================

Short of getting my arc welder out of the garage and building a symlink to 
libFLAC.so.7, I don't know what to do.
-- 
Regards,
Mick