After emerging swfdec-0.5.5 and swfdec-mozilla-0.5.5 I can't use the latter with firefox-2.0.0.11. On stdout I get the following message after I opened about:plugins: LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library /usr/lib/nsbrowser/plugins/libswfdecmozilla.so [libx264.so.54: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory] LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library /usr/lib/nsbrowser/plugins/libswfdecmozilla.so [libx264.so.54: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory] LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library /usr/lib/nsbrowser/plugins/libswfdecmozilla.so [libx264.so.54: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory] $ ldd /usr/lib/nsbrowser/plugins/libswfdecmozilla.so linux-gate.so.1 => (0xffffe000) libswfdec-gtk-0.5.so.5 => /usr/lib/libswfdec-gtk-0.5.so.5 (0xb7ef7000) libswfdec-0.5.so.5 => /usr/lib/libswfdec-0.5.so.5 (0xb7e22000) libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 (0xb7abe000) liboil-0.3.so.0 => /usr/lib/liboil-0.3.so.0 (0xb7a61000) libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0xb7a3b000) libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0 (0xb79b7000) libatk-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libatk-1.0.so.0 (0xb799a000) libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0 (0xb7982000) libpangocairo-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpangocairo-1.0.so.0 (0xb7977000) libpango-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpango-1.0.so.0 (0xb7936000) libcairo.so.2 => /usr/lib/libcairo.so.2 (0xb786e000) libgobject-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 (0xb782e000) libgmodule-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgmodule-2.0.so.0 (0xb7828000) libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0xb7824000) libglib-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 (0xb774e000) libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0xb761e000) libgthread-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgthread-2.0.so.0 (0xb7618000) librt.so.1 => /lib/librt.so.1 (0xb760f000) libpng12.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpng12.so.0 (0xb75e9000) libz.so.1 => /lib/libz.so.1 (0xb75d5000) libpulse-mainloop-glib.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpulse-mainloop-glib.so.0 (0xb75d0000) libpulse.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpulse.so.0 (0xb7590000) libsoup-2.2.so.8 => /usr/lib/libsoup-2.2.so.8 (0xb7560000) libxml2.so.2 => /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2 (0xb73db000) libgnutls.so.13 => /usr/lib/libgnutls.so.13 (0xb735f000) libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0xb7348000) libmad.so.0 => /usr/lib/libmad.so.0 (0xb7330000) libavcodec.so.51 => /usr/lib/libavcodec.so.51 (0xb6e26000) liba52.so.0 => /usr/lib/liba52.so.0 (0xb6e1b000) libamrnb.so.3 => /usr/lib/libamrnb.so.3 (0xb6dd0000) libamrwb.so.3 => /usr/lib/libamrwb.so.3 (0xb6d99000) libmp3lame.so.0 => /usr/lib/libmp3lame.so.0 (0xb6d20000) libx264.so.56 => /usr/lib/libx264.so.56 (0xb6c77000) libxvidcore.so.4 => /usr/lib/libxvidcore.so.4 (0xb6b55000) libfaac.so.0 => /usr/lib/libfaac.so.0 (0xb6b41000) libfaad.so.0 => /usr/lib/libfaad.so.0 (0xb6aff000) libtheora.so.0 => /usr/lib/libtheora.so.0 (0xb6acf000) libvorbisenc.so.2 => /usr/lib/libvorbisenc.so.2 (0xb69d5000) libavutil.so.49 => /usr/lib/libavutil.so.49 (0xb69ca000) libvorbis.so.0 => /usr/lib/libvorbis.so.0 (0xb699f000) libogg.so.0 => /usr/lib/libogg.so.0 (0xb699a000) libgstreamer-0.10.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgstreamer-0.10.so.0 (0xb68f7000) libX11.so.6 => /usr/lib/libX11.so.6 (0xb67f1000) libXcomposite.so.1 => /usr/lib/libXcomposite.so.1 (0xb67ee000) libXdamage.so.1 => /usr/lib/libXdamage.so.1 (0xb67eb000) libXfixes.so.3 => /usr/lib/libXfixes.so.3 (0xb67e6000) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x80000000) libfontconfig.so.1 => /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1 (0xb67b1000) libXext.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXext.so.6 (0xb679f000) libXrender.so.1 => /usr/lib/libXrender.so.1 (0xb6796000) libXi.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXi.so.6 (0xb678d000) libXrandr.so.2 => /usr/lib/libXrandr.so.2 (0xb6786000) libXcursor.so.1 => /usr/lib/libXcursor.so.1 (0xb677a000) libpangoft2-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpangoft2-1.0.so.0 (0xb6744000) libfreetype.so.6 => /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6 (0xb66ad000) libglitz-glx.so.1 => /usr/lib/libglitz-glx.so.1 (0xb66a6000) libSM.so.6 => /usr/lib/libSM.so.6 (0xb669c000) libICE.so.6 => /usr/lib/libICE.so.6 (0xb6682000) libgcrypt.so.11 => /usr/lib/libgcrypt.so.11 (0xb662a000) libgpg-error.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgpg-error.so.0 (0xb6626000) libtasn1.so.3 => /usr/lib/libtasn1.so.3 (0xb6616000) libnsl.so.1 => /lib/libnsl.so.1 (0xb65ff000) libx264.so.54 => not found libXau.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXau.so.6 (0xb65fb000) libXdmcp.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXdmcp.so.6 (0xb65f6000) libglitz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libglitz.so.1 (0xb65cb000) libGL.so.1 => //usr//lib/opengl/nvidia/lib/libGL.so.1 (0xb6534000) libGLcore.so.1 => //usr//lib/opengl/nvidia/lib/libGLcore.so.1 (0xb5b9c000) libnvidia-tls.so.1 => //usr//lib/opengl/nvidia/lib/libnvidia-tls.so.1 (0xb5b9a000) please note: libx264.so.56 => /usr/lib/libx264.so.56 (0xb6c77000) libx264.so.54 => not found $ ls -l /usr/lib/libx264.* -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 769300 5. Jan 19:18 /usr/lib/libx264.a lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 5. Jan 19:18 /usr/lib/libx264.so -> libx264.so.56 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 673968 5. Jan 19:18 /usr/lib/libx264.so.56 After symlinking libx264.so.54 with: sudo ln /usr/lib/libx264.so libx264.so.54 ldd doesnt show the dependency on that file which I think is strange: $ ldd /usr/lib/nsbrowser/plugins/libswfdecmozilla.so | grep 264 libx264.so.56 => /usr/lib/libx264.so.56 (0xb6cbd000) Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.emerge swfdec-0.5.5 swfdec-mozilla-0.5.5 2.see output of ldd /usr/lib/nsbrowser/plugins/libswfdecmozilla.so 3.see that links against a nonexistent library Actual Results: The plugin links against a nonexistent library thus it can't be used by firefox. Expected Results: I'd expect the mozilla plugin to work fine.
1/ Run revdep-rebuild 2/ If it still doesn't work, stick `readelf -d /usr/lib/nsbrowser/plugins/libswfdecmozilla.so | grep NEEDED` output here and attach complete emerge log.
After a revdep-rebuild and a remerge of swfdec and swfdec-mozilla, it doesn't link against a nonexistent library anymore. Although the revdep-rebuild didn't contain any related packages and I did remerge swfdec couple of time before I filed the bug. But hence the issue is resolved, I'll close this bug.