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Bug 733432

Summary: media-libs/alsa-lib-1.2.3.2: most unity based games are broken
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: Michael Mair-Keimberger (iamnr3) <mmk>
Component: Current packagesAssignee: Gentoo ALSA team <alsa-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal CC: chewi, luke, pacho, sam
Priority: Normal    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard:
Package list:
Runtime testing required: ---

Description Michael Mair-Keimberger (iamnr3) 2020-07-21 15:19:19 UTC
Hi,

Since media-libs/alsa-lib-1.2.3* it seems that most/all unity based games (steam games) are broken. In my specific case (cities skyline) it still worked with 1.2.2 but doesn't work with 1.2.3 anymore.

I made some more tests and it seems that many games are already broken with 1.2.2 too:

working with 1.2.2:
cities skylines
crosscells

not working since 1.2.2:
hexcells
huniepop
wayout
dreamfall chapters

With 1.2.3 none of these games are working anymore. However, i could find the file which caused the problems. Simply renaming:
/usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf
actually make all games playable again, however with no sound then.


emerge --info
Portage 2.3.103 (python 3.7.8-final-0, default/linux/amd64/17.1, gcc-10.1.0, glibc-2.31-r5, 5.7.9-gentoo x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: Linux-5.7.9-gentoo-x86_64-AMD_FX-tm-8350_Eight-Core_Processor-with-gentoo-2.7
KiB Mem:    16386328 total,   1643912 free
KiB Swap:    8388604 total,   8381636 free
Timestamp of repository gentoo: Fri, 17 Jul 2020 21:36:01 +0000
Head commit of repository gentoo: 55cf30d11518e64eff1e141a9c7d7a25e5779cfb

Head commit of repository local: 59df858f4e79d0b61603ab0d207c3c6f52932c63

Timestamp of repository steam-overlay: Sat, 04 Jul 2020 07:44:31 +0000
Head commit of repository steam-overlay: fcaa8ccf1c2149d9a61137d400e8ccdc82729dbc

sh bash 5.0_p18
ld GNU ld (Gentoo 2.34 p4) 2.34.0
app-shells/bash:          5.0_p18::gentoo
dev-lang/perl:            5.30.3-r1::gentoo
dev-lang/python:          2.7.18::gentoo, 3.6.11-r1::gentoo, 3.7.8-r1::gentoo, 3.8.4::gentoo, 3.9.0_beta4::gentoo
dev-util/cmake:           3.17.3::gentoo
dev-util/pkgconfig:       0.29.2::gentoo
sys-apps/baselayout:      2.7::gentoo
sys-apps/openrc:          0.42.1::gentoo
sys-apps/sandbox:         2.20::gentoo
sys-devel/autoconf:       2.13-r1::gentoo, 2.69-r5::gentoo
sys-devel/automake:       1.16.2::gentoo
sys-devel/binutils:       2.34-r1::gentoo
sys-devel/gcc:            10.1.0-r2::gentoo
sys-devel/gcc-config:     2.3.1::gentoo
sys-devel/libtool:        2.4.6-r6::gentoo
sys-devel/make:           4.3::gentoo
sys-kernel/linux-headers: 5.7::gentoo (virtual/os-headers)
sys-libs/glibc:           2.31-r5::gentoo
Repositories:

gentoo
    location: /usr/portage
    sync-type: git
    sync-uri: https://github.com/gentoo-mirror/gentoo.git
    priority: -1000
    sync-git-verify-commit-signature: true

local
    location: /var/db/repos/local
    sync-type: git
    sync-uri: git://s2/local.git
    masters: gentoo

steam-overlay
    location: /var/db/repos/steam-overlay
    sync-type: git
    sync-uri: https://github.com/gentoo-mirror/steam-overlay.git
    masters: gentoo

Installed sets: @wine
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64"
ACCEPT_LICENSE="@FREE"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=bdver2 -mprefer-avx128"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /etc/pulse/default.pa /usr/lib64/libreoffice/program/sofficerc /usr/share/config /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt /usr/share/themes/oxygen-gtk/gtk-2.0 /usr/share/themes/oxygen-gtk/gtk-3.0"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/dconf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=bdver2 -mprefer-avx128"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--jobs=8 --load-average 8"
ENV_UNSET="DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS DISPLAY GOBIN GOPATH PERL5LIB PERL5OPT PERLPREFIX PERL_CORE PERL_MB_OPT PERL_MM_OPT XAUTHORITY XDG_CACHE_HOME XDG_CONFIG_HOME XDG_DATA_HOME XDG_RUNTIME_DIR"
FCFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-docompress binpkg-dostrip binpkg-logs config-protect-if-modified distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles ipc-sandbox merge-sync multilib-strict network-sandbox news parallel-fetch parallel-install pid-sandbox preserve-libs protect-owned qa-unresolved-soname-deps sandbox sfperms sign strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox usersync xattr"
FFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org"
LANG="en_AT.UTF-8"
LC_ALL="en_US.utf8"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed"
LINGUAS="en"
MAKEOPTS="-j9"
PKGDIR="/var/cache/binpkgs"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS="--info=progress2,name0,del0"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --omit-dir-times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages --exclude=/.git"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
USE="aac acl alsa amd64 berkdb bzip2 cli crypt dbus dri elogind exif flac fortran gdbm gif iconv ipv6 jpeg kde ldap libtirpc lzma mad mp3 mp4 multilib ncurses nls nptl openal opengl openmp opus pam pcre png python readline sdl seccomp split-usr ssl svg tcpd threads tiff truetype udev unicode vaapi vdpau vim-syntax vorbis vpx vulkan wayland webp x264 xattr xml zlib" ABI_X86="64" ADA_TARGET="gnat_2018" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" APACHE2_MODULES="authn_core authz_core socache_shmcb unixd actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="krita sheets words karbon" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" CPU_FLAGS_X86="aes avx fma3 fma4 mmx mmxext popcnt sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 xop" CURL_SSL="gnutls" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock greis isync itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf skytraq superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ublox ubx" GRUB_PLATFORMS="pc" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev libinput" KERNEL="linux" L10N="en" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LIBREOFFICE_EXTENSIONS="presenter-console presenter-minimizer" OFFICE_IMPLEMENTATION="libreoffice" PHP_TARGETS="php7-2" POSTGRES_TARGETS="postgres10 postgres11" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python3_7" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_7" QEMU_SOFTMMU_TARGETS="arm x86_64" QEMU_USER_TARGETS="arm x86_64" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby26 ruby27" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="radeon radeonsi amdgpu" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account"
Unset:  CC, CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, CXX, INSTALL_MASK, PORTAGE_BINHOST, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS
Comment 1 Pacho Ramos gentoo-dev 2022-12-25 10:18:51 UTC
please retry with an updated system

Thanks
Comment 2 James Le Cuirot gentoo-dev 2022-12-25 13:21:14 UTC
I vaguely recall an issue with this at the time, but I think it's long been fixed. We're up to 1.2.8 now.