MPlayer fails to play some files because of inconsistency detected by ld.so (due to OpenAL)

[Gareth Hart]

Binary package hint: mplayer

Some files fail to play when using MPlayer from the command line or a GUI frontend such as KMPlayer. Every time it fails to play, an error message occurs:

"Inconsistency detected by ld.so: dl-close.c: 731: _dl_close: Assertion `map->l_init_called' failed!"

According to the Debian bug tracker, this is likely to be caused by OpenAL.

Using mplayer 2:1.0~rc3+svn20090426-1ubuntu11 on Lucid Lynx 64-bit.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Nov 21 20:38:03 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: mplayer (not installed)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=
 LANG=C
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-4.5-generic
RelatedPackageVersions:
 libavcodec52 4:0.5+svn20090706-2ubuntu3
 libavcodec-extra-52 N/A
SourcePackage: mplayer
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-4-generic x86_64
UserConf: # Write your default config options here!
system: distro = Ubuntu, architecture = x86_64, kernel = 2.6.32-4-generic

[Ordex-a (ordex-a)]

With media-libs/openal-1.9.563 i got this message while closing mplayer:

 Inconsistency detected by ld.so: dl-close.c: 731: _dl_close: Assertion `map->l_init_called' failed!

I read in the debian bugzilla list(http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=551018) that the last version of openal makes strage things, downgrade is suggested. I downgraded to media-libs/openal-1.8.466 and now everything seems to works fine.

[Samuli Suominen (ssuominen)]

Don't downgrade, 1.8.466 silently fails with stable Pulseaudio.

Use 1.9.563, and if the warning bothers you, set USE="-pulseaudio" temporarily.

[Ordex-a (ordex-a)]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Don't downgrade, 1.8.466 silently fails with stable Pulseaudio.
>
> Use 1.9.563, and if the warning bothers you, set USE="-pulseaudio" temporarily.
>

Ok, i re-upgrade to the latest version of openal, the problem now is that i use pulseaudio and i would like to use it. anyway i'll wait for a fix

[Samuli Suominen (ssuominen)]

*** Bug 290727 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Samuli Suominen (ssuominen)]

This should be fixed by:

+*openal-1.10.622 (28 Nov 2009)
+
+ 28 Nov 2009; Samuli Suominen <email address hidden>
+ +openal-1.10.622.ebuild:
+ Version bump.

Let me know if that's not the case.

[Wolfgang Kufner (wolfgangkufner)]

I think the openal packages published in karmic and lucid stem from openal-soft.

[Niall Creech (sevenmachines-deactivatedaccount)]

not sure what the proper fix is but as a temporary workaround the pulseaudio backend for openal can be disabled which 'fixes' the error
Inconsistency detected by ld.so: dl-close.c: 731: _dl_close: Assertion `map->l_init_called' failed!

either in /etc/openal/alsoft.conf or per user using /usr/share/doc/libopenal1/examples/alsoftrc.sample.gz as basis for file ~/.alsoftrc

uncomment driver section and remove pulse

--- .alsoftrc 2009-12-01 23:11:28.024130412 +0000
+++ .alsoftrc.new 2009-12-01 23:12:44.054130244 +0000
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@
 # Sets the backend driver list order, comma-seperated. Unknown backends and
 # duplicated names are ignored, and unlisted backends won't be considered for
 # use. An empty list means the default.
-#drivers = alsa,oss,solaris,dsound,winmm,port,pulse,wave
+drivers = alsa,oss,solaris,dsound,winmm,port,wave

 ## excludefx:
 # Sets which effects to exclude, preventing apps from using them. This can

[Niall Creech (sevenmachines-deactivatedaccount)]

this problem seems to be fixed in upstream version http://kcat.strangesoft.net/openal-releases/openal-soft-1.10.622.tar.bz2

[Wolfgang Kufner (wolfgangkufner)]

From the bug description and comments it seems the bug was never in mplayer, but in openal-soft.

[Samuli Suominen (ssuominen)]

*** Bug 359837 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***