Most of things that link against alsa-libs show the following: leonid@vyhuhol ~ $ aplay GameAdd.wav ALSA lib dlmisc.c:118:(snd_dlsym_verify) unable to verify version for symbol _snd_pcm_empty_open ALSA lib pcm.c:2108:(snd_pcm_open_conf) symbol _snd_pcm_empty_open is not defined inside (null) aplay: main:545: audio open error: No such device or address. leonid@vyhuhol ~ $ artsd unix_connect: can't connect to server (unix:/tmp/ksocket-leonid/vyhuhol-2cd4-46853552) ALSA lib dlmisc.c:118:(snd_dlsym_verify) unable to verify version for symbol _snd_pcm_empty_open ALSA lib pcm.c:2108:(snd_pcm_open_conf) symbol _snd_pcm_empty_open is not defined inside (null) Error while initializing the sound driver: device: default can't be opened for playback (No such device or address) I tried to do all the obvious things, like recompiling alsa-utils, alsa-libs, running revdep-rebuild, etc. The versions are: [I--] [ ~] media-libs/alsa-lib-1.0.14a (0) [I--] [ ~] media-sound/alsa-headers-1.0.14 (0) [I--] [ ~] media-sound/alsa-utils-1.0.14 (0.9) Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce:
Portage 2.1.3_rc5 (default-linux/x86/2007.0, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.5-r3, 2.6.21-gentoo-r3 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.21-gentoo-r3 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz Gentoo Base System release 1.12.10 Timestamp of tree: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 10:20:01 +0000 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.33-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.4.4-r4 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: 1.3.16 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.24 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.21 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O2 -pipe " CHOST="i686-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/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O2 -pipe " DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="distlocks fixpackages metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo http://pandemonium.tiscali.de/pub/gentoo/ http://gentoo.intergenia.de http://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo" LANG="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8" LINGUAS="en us en_GB ru he uk" MAKEOPTS="-j3" 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 --filter=H_**/files/digest-*" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X aac aalib accessibility acpi aim alsa amd aoss apache2 apm arts asf automount bash-completion berkdb bidi bitmap-fonts bittorrent bonobo bzip2 c++ cairo cap cdb cddb cdparanoia cdr cdrom cgi chardet chm chroot clamav clamd clearpasswd cmucl cobalt cpudetection cracklib crypt cscope css ctype cups curl cvs cvsgraph dba dbase dbus dbx delays devmap dhcp dict dio directfb djvu dnd dpms dri dts dv dvb dvd dvdr dvdread dvi eb emacs emacs-w3 enca encode escreen ethereal exif expat extensions extrafilters fat fbcon fbdev fbsplash fep ffmpeg fftw firefox flac font-server fontconfig foomaticdb fortran fpx freetext ftp fuse gcj gd gg gif gimp gimpprint glade glib glibc-omitfp glut glx gmail gmailtimestamps gphoto2 gpm gprof gsnd gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile hal haskell hfs high-ints hpn i8x0 icc iconv icq id3 idea idn ieee1394 imagemagick imap imlib imlib2 immqt irc irda jabber java javamail javascript jfs jpeg jpeg2k junit justify kde kdeenablefinal kdexdeltas kipi lame largeterminal latex lcd lcms leim libcaca libclamav libwww lj logitech-mouse logrotate lzo mad maps mbox mcal mikmod mjpeg mmap mmx mod_irc mod_muc mod_pubsub mod_python modelock modperl modplug mono motif mozcalendar moznoxft mozsvg mozxmlterm mp2 mp3 mpeg mplayer mpm-prefork msn mule multi-tty multiuser music mysql mysqli mythtv mzscheme nagios-dns nautilus ncurses need netboot network new-login nls nntp no-old-linux nptl nptlonly nsplugin ntfs ocaml offensive ogg oggvorbis opengl openssh openssl oscar oss pam parse-clocks pcap pcre pdf perl php plotutils pmu png posix postfix ppds print procmail python qt3 qt4 quicktime quotas rar rdesktop readline real reiserfs rss rtc ruby samba sblive screen sdl serial server session sharedmem slang smime snmp soap sockets socks5 sound sounds spell srt sse sse2 ssl stroke subversion svg swat sysfs syslog sysvipc tcl tcltk tcpd tetex theora threads tidy tiff tk tools transcode truetype truetype-fonts type1 type1-fonts unicode unzip ups urandom usb user-homedirs utempter v4l v4l2 vcd vcdimager vfat vim vim-pager vim-syntax vim-with-x visualization vnc vorbis web webdav win32codecs winbind wma wmf wxwindows x86 xanim xemacs xface xfs xgetdefault xine xinetd xml xmlrpc xorg xpm xprint xscreensaver xsl xslt xv xvid xvmc yahoo zlib" ALSA_CARDS="emu10k1" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse vmmouse" KERNEL="linux" LINGUAS="en us en_GB ru he uk" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="i810 vesa fbdev vga v4l vmware" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
That's because you are using USE="-*" in make.conf. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 183451 ***
