When flac 1.1.2 r1 is installed, xine won't start. It exits with "There is no demuxer plugin available to handle 'file:/usr/share/xine/skins/xine-ui_logo.mpv'." You can close the application in about 2 seconds, otherwise xine will just hang. You can xkill it, but a xine process still remains then. (kill -9 that one). relevant debug output: xine: found input plugin : file input plugin ebml: invalid EBML ID size (0x0) at position 1 ebml: invalid master element load_plugins: cannot (stage 2) open plugin lib /usr/lib/xine/plugins/1.0.1/xineplug_flac.so: libFLAC.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory xine: couldn't find demux for >file:/usr/share/xine/skins/xine-ui_logo.mpv< ---------------------- (ERROR) ---------------------- got XINE_ERROR_NO_DEMUX_PLUGIN. ------------------ (END OF ERROR) ------------------- ---------------------- (ERROR) ---------------------- - xine engine error - There is no demuxer plugin available to handle 'file:/usr/share/xine/skins/xine-ui_logo.mpv'. Usually this means that the file format was not recognized. ------------------ (END OF ERROR) ------------------- ---------------------- (ERROR) ---------------------- - xine engine error - There is no demuxer plugin available to handle 'file:/usr/share/xine/skins/xine-ui_logo.mpv'. Usually this means that the file format was not recognized. ------------------ (END OF ERROR) ------------------- Downgrading to flac 1.1.1 solves the problem. I'm not sure if it's relevant, but I'm running xine-ui-0.99.3-r1. This might be somehow related to bug 82622 Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.emerge xine-ui 2.emerge flac Medusa% emerge info Portage 2.0.51.21-r1 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.4.3-20050110, glibc-2.3.5-r0, 2.6.12-rc1-love1 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.12-rc1-love1 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2500+ Gentoo Base System version 1.6.11 distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.5 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.5 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r8 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.16 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -mmmx -msse -m3dnow -mfpmath=sse,387 -ffast-math" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/fax /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/alias /var/qmail/control /var/spool/fax/etc" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -mmmx -msse -m3dnow -mfpmath=sse,387 -ffast-math" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/ ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/opsys/linux/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo" LANG="nl_NL@euro" LC_ALL="nl_NL@euro" LINGUAS="nl" MAKEOPTS="-j5" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 3dnow 3dnowex X aalib alsa apache2 apm arts audiofile avi bash-completion bitmap-fonts bonobo bzlib calender cdparanoia cdr chipcard chroot crypt cups curl dba divx4linux dvd dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode esd fam festival filepro flac font-server foomaticdb fortran gd gdbm gif gnome gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 guile hal imagemagick imlib insecure-drivers java jpeg jpeg2k junit kde ldap libg++ libwww live mad mikmod mime mmx mmxext mono motif mozdevelop mozilla moznomail moznoxft mp3 mpeg mplayer msn mysql ncurses network nls nptl nvidia odbc offensive ogg oggvorbis ooo-kde opengl pam pdflib perl php pic png postgres python qmail qt quicktime readline real rplay samba scanner sdk sdl session sftplogging slang softmmu speex spell sqlite sse ssl startup-notification stroke svga tcltk tcpd threads tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts usb userlocales v4l vorbis wmf xine xinerama xml xml2 xmms xprint xscreensaver xv xvid zlib video_cards_nvidia linguas_nl userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LDFLAGS
Just do a revdep-rebuild or re-emerge xine-lib. Flac soversion changed and the old lib is there no more.
It's even reported by the ebuild: * If you've upgraded from a previous version of flac, you may need to re-emerge * packages that linked against flac by running: * revdep-rebuild Sorry for reporting such a stupid (l)user mistake as a bug, and thank you for the fast response.