After some update, I am not sure exactly what, all sound in netscape-flash stopped working. I am running an AMD64 system and playing flash through mozilla-firefox-bin. If I try to play something through gflashplayer, I get this relevant output repeated thousands of times: ALSA lib pcm.c:2109:(snd_pcm_open_conf) Cannot open shared library /usr/lib/alsa-lib/libasound_module_pcm_empty.so ALSA lib pcm_plug.c:1189:(_snd_pcm_plug_open) Unknown field hint I indeed do not have /usr/lib/alsa-lib/libasound_module_pcm_empty.so. This makes me think some alsa-lib or emul package changed 'shape' or something and broke some dependency. I have already tried reinstalling flash. These are the files I found with a name containing libasound: # find / -iname \*libasound\* /emul/linux/x86/usr/lib/libasound.so /emul/linux/x86/usr/lib/libasound.so.2.0.0 /emul/linux/x86/usr/lib/libasound.so.2 /usr/lib64/libasound.so /usr/lib64/libasound.so.2.0.0 /usr/lib64/libasound.a /usr/lib64/libasound.so.2 /usr/lib64/libasound.la My emerge --info if it is relevant: # emerge --info Portage 2.1.2_rc3-r5 (default-linux/amd64/2006.1/desktop, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.5-r0, 2.6.18-gentoo-niskel x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.18-gentoo-niskel x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3500+ Gentoo Base System version 1.12.7 Last Sync: Sat, 16 Dec 2006 11:30:01 +0000 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.30 dev-lang/python: 2.4.4 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10 sys-devel/binutils: 2.17 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.14 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.17-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-ident" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/java-config/vms/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-ident" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" LC_ALL="en_US.utf8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" LINGUAS="en" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage /usr/portage/local/layman/berkano" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="amd64 X a52 aac alsa alsa_cards_emu10k1 alsa_cards_usb-audio apache2 asf avahi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cairo cdparanoia cdr cjk cli cracklib crypt cups dbus dlloader dri dv dvd dvdr dvdread elibc_glibc emboss encode fam fbcon ffmpeg firefox flac fortran gdbm gif glut gpm gtk2 hal iconv imlib input_devices_evdev input_devices_keyboard ipv6 isdnlog jack java jikes jpeg kde kernel_linux ldap libg++ linguas_en lzo mad matroska mikmod mng modplug mp3 mpeg musicbrainz ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin nvidia offensive ogg opengl pam pcre pdf perl php png ppds pppd python qt qt3 qt4 quicktime readline reflection samba sdl session speex spell spl ssl subversion svg tcpd theora tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb userland_GNU v4l v4l2 video_cards_nvidia vorbis x264 xcomposite xine xml xorg xv xvid xvmc zeroconf zlib" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 157992 ***
