Debian Bug report logs - #431540
flashplugin-nonfree doesn't play with alsa 1.0.14

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Marc Lehmann <debian-reportbug@plan9.de>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: lib32asound2: Cannot open shared library /usr/lib/alsa-lib/libasound_module_pcm_empty.so

Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2007 12:25:45 +0200

Package: lib32asound2
Version: 1.0.14a-1
Severity: normal


After upgrading to 1.0.14a-1 of lib32asound2 (from 1.0.13-2, stable), all my 32
bit apps failed when trying to use alsa, with messages similar to these:

   alsa-init: using device default
   alsa-lib: pcm.c:2106:(snd_pcm_open_conf) Cannot open shared library /usr/lib/alsa-lib/libasound_module_pcm_empty.so
   alsa-init: playback open error: No such file or directory

downgrading to the stable version (and changing nothing else) fixes it,
upgrading brings the problem back.

I have no .asoundrc or any other alsa customisation on this system.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.20.1
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages lib32asound2 depends on:
ii  libasound2                    1.0.13-2   ALSA library
ii  libc6-i386                    2.5-7      GNU C Library: 32bit shared librar

lib32asound2 recommends no packages.

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Message #10 received at 431540@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Elimar Riesebieter <riesebie@lxtec.de>

To: Marc Lehmann <debian-reportbug@plan9.de>, 431540@bugs.debian.org

Cc: control@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: [Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#431540: lib32asound2: Cannot open shared library /usr/lib/alsa-lib/libasound_module_pcm_empty.so

Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2007 20:00:10 +0200

merge 429762 431540

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On Tue, 03 Jul 2007 the mental interface of
Marc Lehmann told:

> Package: lib32asound2
> Version: 1.0.14a-1
> Severity: normal
> 
> 
> After upgrading to 1.0.14a-1 of lib32asound2 (from 1.0.13-2, stable), all my 32
> bit apps failed when trying to use alsa, with messages similar to these:
> 
>    alsa-init: using device default
>    alsa-lib: pcm.c:2106:(snd_pcm_open_conf) Cannot open shared library /usr/lib/alsa-lib/libasound_module_pcm_empty.so
>    alsa-init: playback open error: No such file or directory
> 
> downgrading to the stable version (and changing nothing else) fixes it,
> upgrading brings the problem back.
> 
> I have no .asoundrc or any other alsa customisation on this system.

Have a look at [0], then reboot, choose your favourite songs and
close this bug then ;)

Elimar

[0] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=429762


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Message #15 received at 431540@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Marc Lehmann <schmorp@schmorp.de>

To: Elimar Riesebieter <riesebie@lxtec.de>

Cc: 431540@bugs.debian.org, control@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: [Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#431540: lib32asound2: Cannot open shared library /usr/lib/alsa-lib/libasound_module_pcm_empty.so

Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2007 10:01:42 +0200

On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 08:00:10PM +0200, Elimar Riesebieter <riesebie@lxtec.de> wrote:
> merge 429762 431540

BTW, its very painful to reply to your mail as you put the whole mail
below the signature, which is stripped by most e-mail programs when
replying so I had to manually paste the mail.

>Have a look at [0], then reboot, choose your favourite songs and
>close this bug then ;)

I do not understand that. I read through [0], but neither was asound in use nor
do I use amorok nor was anything running that used alsa.

If a reboot fixes things even when libasound is not in use, that is a bad
sign (what to do with servers? reboot them).

In any case, a rbeoot does not have any effect on the problem, it is still
persisting with the newer version of libasound.

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Message #20 received at 431540@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Elimar Riesebieter <riesebie@lxtec.de>

To: Marc Lehmann <debian-reportbug@plan9.de>, 431540@bugs.debian.org, Marc Lehmann <schmorp@schmorp.de>

Subject: Re: [Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#431540: lib32asound2: Cannot open shared library /usr/lib/alsa-lib/libasound_module_pcm_empty.so

Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2007 00:13:16 +0200

On Tue, 03 Jul 2007 the mental interface of
Marc Lehmann told:

> Package: lib32asound2
> Version: 1.0.14a-1
> Severity: normal
> 
> 
> After upgrading to 1.0.14a-1 of lib32asound2 (from 1.0.13-2, stable), all my 32
> bit apps failed when trying to use alsa, with messages similar to these:
> 
>    alsa-init: using device default
>    alsa-lib: pcm.c:2106:(snd_pcm_open_conf) Cannot open shared library /usr/lib/alsa-lib/libasound_module_pcm_empty.so

This file isn't either generated nor installed by an alsa package.
You can verify it by:

$ apt-file update; apt-file search alsa-lib/libasound_module_pcm_empty.so

>    alsa-init: playback open error: No such file or directory

Which app did you try here?


[...]

On Fri, 06 Jul 2007 the mental interface of
Marc Lehmann told:

> On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 08:00:10PM +0200, Elimar Riesebieter <riesebie@lxtec.de> wrote:
> > merge 429762 431540
> 
> BTW, its very painful to reply to your mail as you put the whole mail
> below the signature, which is stripped by most e-mail programs when
> replying so I had to manually paste the mail.

Well dashdashblank is used by the Debian control bug server. It
simply tells that the instructions are stoped here. It shouldn't be
painful, though

> >Have a look at [0], then reboot, choose your favourite songs and
> >close this bug then ;)
> 
> I do not understand that. I read through [0], but neither was asound in use nor
> do I use amorok nor was anything running that used alsa.
> 
> If a reboot fixes things even when libasound is not in use, that is a bad
> sign (what to do with servers? reboot them).

You're right! Please close all sound apps and running daemons (arts,
esd, jack) and do an
# rm -rf /usr/lib/alsa-lib/libasound_module_pcm_empty.so; apt-get update; dpkg --purge --force -all lib32asound2; apt-get install -f

and report the results here.

Thanks for cooperation

Elimar

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Message #25 received at 431540@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Elimar Riesebieter <riesebie@lxtec.de>

To: Adrian Bastholm <adrian@javaguru.org>

Cc: 431540@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#431540: [Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#431540: lib32asound2: Cannot open shared library /usr/lib/alsa-lib/libasound_module_pcm_empty.so

Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 08:23:14 +0200

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On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 the mental interface of
Adrian Bastholm told:

> Hello,
> The advice in Your last post doesn't help
> (http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org/msg366511.html)
> 
> I still get 
> ALSA lib pcm_plug.c:1189:(_snd_pcm_plug_open) Unknown field hint
> ALSA lib pcm.c:2106:(snd_pcm_open_conf) Cannot open shared
> library /usr/lib/alsa-lib/libasound_module_pcm_empty.so
> 
> when running 'aoss firefox' and trying to watch a flash video

Did you tried to configure your card with alsaconf?

Elimar


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Message #30 received at 431540@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Elimar Riesebieter <riesebie@lxtec.de>

To: Adrian Bastholm <adrian@javaguru.org>

Cc: 431540@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#431540: [Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#431540: lib32asound2: Cannot open shared library /usr/lib/alsa-lib/libasound_module_pcm_empty.so

Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 22:26:25 +0200

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On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 the mental interface of
Adrian Bastholm told:

> Hello,
> Yes, reconfiguring kills my soundcard, and i have to manually reload the 
> module.
>
> ...Now ALSA is ready to use.
> For adjustment of volumes, use your favorite mixer.
>
> Have a lot of fun!
>
>
> jenna:/home/download# alsamixer
>
> alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such device
> ...
>
> running "aoss firefox" as root gives:
> ALSA lib pcm_plug.c:1189:(_snd_pcm_plug_open) Unknown field hint
> ALSA lib pcm.c:2106:(snd_pcm_open_conf) Cannot open shared library
> /usr/lib/alsa-lib/libasound_module_pcm_empty.so

Plesae donn't configure your card with alsaconf!

Do as follows:

# dpkg --purge --force-all alsa-utils alsa-oss alsa-base libasound2 linux-sound-base

# apt-get install alsa-utils alsa-base libasound2

Enjoy sound without configuring the card with alsaconf. udev does
the trick for you.

Elimar

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Message #35 received at 431540@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Elimar Riesebieter <riesebie@lxtec.de>

To: Adrian Bastholm <adrian@javaguru.org>

Cc: 431540@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#431540: [Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#431540: lib32asound2: Cannot open shared library /usr/lib/alsa-lib/libasound_module_pcm_empty.so

Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2007 20:35:23 +0200

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On Sun, 05 Aug 2007 the mental interface of
Adrian Bastholm told:

> Hello Elimar,
> Finally I got the sound working. Everything needed is a downgrade of
> libasound2 and lib32asound2 (libasound2_1.0.13-2_amd64.deb
> lib32asound2_1.0.13-2_amd64.deb) which are the packages from Debian
> stable. I thought it might be "nice to know" for everyone else, if You
> get more questions
> 

Well, 1.0.14 should work perfect for you!

Elimar


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Message #40 received at 431540@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Elimar Riesebieter <riesebie@lxtec.de>

To: Adrian Bastholm <adrian@javaguru.org>

Cc: 431540@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#431540: [Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#431540: lib32asound2: Cannot open shared library /usr/lib/alsa-lib/libasound_module_pcm_empty.so

Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2007 23:42:34 +0200

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On Wed, 08 Aug 2007 the mental interface of
Adrian Bastholm told:

> Yes, as far as I know, it's only when playing flash videos.
> [...]

Which player (software) ? Maybe we have to build the flashplayer
against libasound2-dev-1.0.14!

Elimar

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Message #45 received at 431540@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Elimar Riesebieter <riesebie@lxtec.de>

To: Adrian Bastholm <adrian@javaguru.org>

Cc: 431540@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#431540: [Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#431540: lib32asound2: Cannot open shared library /usr/lib/alsa-lib/libasound_module_pcm_empty.so

Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2007 23:04:07 +0200

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On Thu, 09 Aug 2007 the mental interface of
Adrian Bastholm told:

> Hello Elimar,
> it's flashplugin-nonfree
> Architecture: amd64
> Version: 9.0.48.0.2
> flashplugin-nonfree_9.0.48.0.2_amd64.deb

This is only a plugin but no player.

Tell us the output of:
$ dpkg -l | grep flash

Elimar


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Message #50 received at 431540@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Elimar Riesebieter <riesebie@lxtec.de>

To: Adrian Bastholm <adrian@javaguru.org>

Cc: 431540@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#431540: [Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#431540: lib32asound2: Cannot open shared library /usr/lib/alsa-lib/libasound_module_pcm_empty.so

Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 18:33:21 +0200

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On Fri, 10 Aug 2007 the mental interface of
Adrian Bastholm told:

> Hello Elimar,
> here is the output:
> 
> javaguru@jenna:~$ dpkg -l | grep flash
> ii  flashplugin-nonfree    9.0.48.0.2   Adobe Flash Player plugin installer

Hmm, check out the many free flashplayers and plugins like gnash,
libflash-mozplugin, mozilla-plugin-gnash. I guess the Adobe player
can't handle alsa 1.0.14, though. As you can here music with any
other application than flashplugin-nonfree we should close this bug?

Elimar

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Message #55 received at 431540@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Elimar Riesebieter <riesebie@lxtec.de>

To: Adrian Bastholm <adrian@javaguru.org>

Cc: 431540@bugs.debian.org, control@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#431540: [Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#431540: lib32asound2: Cannot open shared library /usr/lib/alsa-lib/libasound_module_pcm_empty.so

Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2007 09:35:43 +0200

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reassign 431540 flashplugin-nonfree
retitle 431540 flashplugin-nonfree doesn't play with alsa 1.0.14

thanks

On Sat, 11 Aug 2007 the mental interface of
Adrian Bastholm told:

> Hello Elimar,
> I guess one could consider this to be a flash player issue. I
> understand Your position - everything works except flash - hence it's
> a flash problem. The thing is I don't think that Adobe gives a shit
> about whether their player works well with the new 1.0.14 library, so
> closing the bug won't make the issue go away. Instead I would put it
> on hold.

Reassigned to flashplugin-nonfree.

Elimar

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Message #64 received at 431540@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Elimar Riesebieter <riesebie@lxtec.de>

To: Marc Lehmann <debian-reportbug@plan9.de>, 431540@bugs.debian.org, Marc Lehmann <schmorp@schmorp.de>

Subject: Re: [Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#431540: Bug#431540: lib32asound2: Cannot open shared library /usr/lib/alsa-lib/libasound_module_pcm_empty.so

Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2007 15:43:50 +0200

On Sun, 08 Jul 2007 the mental interface of
Elimar Riesebieter told:

[...]
> You're right! Please close all sound apps and running daemons (arts,
> esd, jack) and do an
> # rm -rf /usr/lib/alsa-lib/libasound_module_pcm_empty.so; apt-get update; dpkg --purge --force -all lib32asound2; apt-get install -f
> 
> and report the results here.

Everything works well now? Do you confirm to close this bug?

Elimar


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Message #69 received at 431540@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Elimar Riesebieter <riesebie@lxtec.de>

To: Marc Lehmann <schmorp@schmorp.de>

Cc: 431540@bugs.debian.org, 431540-done@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: [Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#431540: Bug#431540: lib32asound2: Cannot open shared library /usr/lib/alsa-lib/libasound_module_pcm_empty.so

Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 20:41:14 +0200

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On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 the mental interface of
Marc Lehmann told:

> On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 03:43:50PM +0200, Elimar Riesebieter <riesebie@lxtec.de> wrote:
> > > You're right! Please close all sound apps and running daemons (arts,
> > > esd, jack) and do an
> > > # rm -rf /usr/lib/alsa-lib/libasound_module_pcm_empty.so; apt-get update; dpkg --purge --force -all lib32asound2; apt-get install -f
> > > 
> > > and report the results here.
> > 
> > Everything works well now? Do you confirm to close this bug?
> 
> Yes, because I downgraded to stable again. I just tried to reproduce it by
> upgrading once more and ti works. And yes, libasound_module_pcm_empty.so is
> nto instaleld by anything, but google sees that message a lot. No idea what
> to make of it.
> 
> As for closing, since its gone, I will not have a problem with closing it
> at all, after all, it works :)

Done ;)

Thanks for cooperation.

Elimar


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