[feisty] Missing 32-bit libxcb.so and libxcb-xlib.so in 64-bit Fiesty

[A. Campbell]

64-bit feisty

I had Flash running via aliened nspluginwrapper rpms. It was working well.

Today (or very recently) the plugin stopped working. Attempts to resintall fail due to missing libs: libxcb-xlib.so.0.

Run ldd on /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so and I see two 32-bit libs missing:

$ ldd libflashplayer.so
        linux-gate.so.1 => (0xffffe000)
        libdl.so.2 => /lib32/libdl.so.2 (0xf77d4000)

        [... snip ...]

        libc.so.6 => /lib32/libc.so.6 (0xf704d000)
        /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x56555000)
        libxcb-xlib.so.0 => not found <-- Problems start here
        libxcb.so.1 => not found
        libXau.so.6 => /usr/lib32/libXau.so.6 (0xf7049000)
        libSM.so.6 => /usr/lib32/libSM.so.6 (0xf7040000)

        [... snip ...]

I remember seeing updates to xlib related packages very recently (yesterday or today.) I suspect the 32-bit libxcb* files have been overlooked somehow.

[Ian Jessen (07imj)]

I have a similar problem with a freshly updated Feisty install while attempting to run Google Earth (32 bit).

./googleearth-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libxcb-xlib.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

The packages aren't found in /usr/lib32.