firefox-bin returns an error and won't start. I do not have alsa (or any other sound system) installed. Worked fine with version <= 96 $ firefox-bin XPCOMGlueLoad error for file /opt/firefox/libxul.so: libasound.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Couldn't load XPCOM. $ echo $? 255 Reproducible: Always # equery l firefox-bin * Searching for firefox-bin ... [IP-] [ ] www-client/firefox-bin-97.0.2:0/97 # equery u firefox-bin | grep -v l10n -alsa +ffmpeg +gmp-autoupdate -pulseaudio -wayland # emerge --info Portage 3.0.30 (python 3.10.2-final-0, default/linux/x86/17.0, gcc-11.2.0, glibc-2.33-r7, 5.4.28-gentoo-x86 i686) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-5.4.28-gentoo-x86-i686-Intel_Core_i7_9xx_-Nehalem_Core_i7,_IBRS_update-with-glibc2.33 KiB Mem: 3097512 total, 90676 free KiB Swap: 1048572 total, 1048572 free Timestamp of repository gentoo: Mon, 07 Mar 2022 20:45:01 +0000 Head commit of repository gentoo: a0ebdbbb91ad5f44aca1be190090890005f166d1 Timestamp of repository plex-overlay: Thu, 03 Mar 2022 14:21:53 +0000 Head commit of repository plex-overlay: 6d8e3bd633eb1087473ad6bafd41a060ce525edb sh bash 5.1_p16 ld GNU ld (Gentoo 2.37_p1 p2) 2.37 app-misc/pax-utils: 1.3.3::gentoo app-shells/bash: 5.1_p16::gentoo dev-java/java-config: 2.3.1::gentoo dev-lang/perl: 5.34.0-r6::gentoo 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I've seen iwdevtools report alsa-lib as an unconditional dep, just didn't want to believe in that. My testing has always installed apulse or pulseaudio so haven't hit this yet. Let me try.
So alsa-lib is a mandatory requirement. Trying to remove it via patchelf --remove-needed just results in a disaster and non-working firefox bin. I wonder what's the best way to solve this. Remove "alsa" USE flag and make pulseaudio/apulse mandatory requirements via "pulseaudio? || ( 1 2 )", or make "apulse" USE flag and always depend on alsa-lib. The first option is more widely used in the tree, but since we use patchelf based on USE flag, switching between pulseaudio/apulse is potentially not-detectable.
I emerged alsa-lib and can confirm Firefox starts now, thanks
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=a394973cbb5fbacd2699cc49b13a57505c419f2b commit a394973cbb5fbacd2699cc49b13a57505c419f2b Author: Joonas Niilola <juippis@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2022-03-09 13:03:18 +0000 Commit: Joonas Niilola <juippis@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2022-03-09 17:19:51 +0000 www-client/firefox-bin: alsa-lib is an unconditional dep - +alsa -pulseaudio should still pull apulse normally, -alsa -pulseaudio won't pull any sound daemons, but alsa-lib is now a mandatory requirement nevertheless. Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/834757 Signed-off-by: Joonas Niilola <juippis@gentoo.org> ...x-bin-98.0.ebuild => firefox-bin-98.0-r1.ebuild} | 14 ++++---------- www-client/firefox-bin/metadata.xml | 21 +++++++++++---------- 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)
Just wanted to thank juippis for both the sound decision (ha!) and the exemplary git comment. Sometimes I'm left asking "Why?" or "OK but what does that actually mean for me trying to decide what to do?". This one answered all that and the only reason I needed to open the bug was curiosity as to how it was discovered/reported. And while I'm at it, thanks for all the effort put into making +alsa -pulseaudio work so smoothly. It'd be easy enough to just say "It's a binary, you get what they ship." and be done with it. I'm a beneficiary of all that extra work and remembering the early days of broken upstream alsa-only support, definitely appreciate how incredibly smooth (at least from the user end) things have been lately! =:^)
Glad to hear! A lot of credit for these ebuilds goes to their original author who is of course our Whissi.
Yes, always happy to see more and verbose git commit messages -- they matter!
