Bug 36157 – Gnome 2.4 and missing alsa

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED INVALID

[Description Phantom 2003-12-19 23:28:23 UTC]

This made me went crasy
upgraded Gnome 2.? to 2.4 (I never checked the version just before... 2.2?)
everything was working fine
I emerge unmerge asla-lib
reboot
can't enter in X (gnome) anymore!
no error message on the screen or in the logs, just a "clean" shutdown


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1- Install alsa
2- Install gnome
3- Remove alsa
4- Try to start gnome...
Actual Results:  
X start, screen change of res, back to console, no error

Expected Results:  
X would start and gnome should follow with no sound and possibly with an error
message
or
an error message saying libalsa.so (or whatever) is missing

I discovered the problem with:
startx   back to console
X        I went in X, killed it
xinit    same as startx
gdm      error: missing libalsa.so (or simmilar, didn't writted the error)


CFLAGS="-O3 -march=athlon-xp -funroll-loops -fprefetch-loop-arrays -pipe"
USE="3dnow acpi alsa apache2 avi cdr cups dga dvd encode foomaticdb gif gnome
gphoto2 gtk gtk2 jack java maildir mbox mmx mozilla moeg mysql oggvorbis opengl
perl png readline samba scanner sse ssl tcltk truetype usb video X xmms -kde"

[Comment 1 Phantom 2003-12-19 23:33:58 UTC]

I forgot to say: alsa = alsa-lib

[Comment 2 foser (RETIRED) 2003-12-20 05:19:35 UTC]

Well it's just not wise to remove random libs from your system, they may be referenced here and there. Try revdep-rebuild to fix the apps/libs that reference alsa-lib.

closing invalid, screw-up on the user side.

[Comment 3 Phantom 2003-12-20 15:12:29 UTC]

ok, I agree on the user error thing
but gnome SHOULD complain and leaves an error somewhere!
Right now it only quit cleanly, which is not a normal behavior.
So I disagree with the "invalid" thing... This is a bug! Gnome fail to gives any error!