[Pkg-games-ubuntu] [Bug 486414] Re: MPlayer fails to play some files because of inconsistency detected by ld.so (due to OpenAL)

[SevenMachines]

not sure what the proper fix is but as a temporary workaround the pulseaudio backend for openal can be disabled which 'fixes' the error
Inconsistency detected by ld.so: dl-close.c: 731: _dl_close: Assertion `map->l_init_called' failed!

either in /etc/openal/alsoft.conf or per user using
/usr/share/doc/libopenal1/examples/alsoftrc.sample.gz as basis for file
~/.alsoftrc

uncomment driver section and remove pulse

--- .alsoftrc   2009-12-01 23:11:28.024130412 +0000
+++ .alsoftrc.new       2009-12-01 23:12:44.054130244 +0000
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@
 #  Sets the backend driver list order, comma-seperated. Unknown backends and
 #  duplicated names are ignored, and unlisted backends won't be considered for
 #  use. An empty list means the default.
-#drivers = alsa,oss,solaris,dsound,winmm,port,pulse,wave
+drivers = alsa,oss,solaris,dsound,winmm,port,wave

 ## excludefx:
 #  Sets which effects to exclude, preventing apps from using them. This can

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MPlayer fails to play some files because of inconsistency detected by ld.so (due to OpenAL)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/486414
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Status in “mplayer” package in Ubuntu: New
Status in “openal-soft” package in Ubuntu: New
Status in “mplayer” package in Debian: New
Status in Gentoo Linux: Fix Released

Bug description:
Binary package hint: mplayer

Some files fail to play when using MPlayer from the command line or a GUI frontend such as KMPlayer. Every time it fails to play, an error message occurs:

"Inconsistency detected by ld.so: dl-close.c: 731: _dl_close: Assertion `map->l_init_called' failed!"

According to the Debian bug tracker, this is likely to be caused by OpenAL.

Using mplayer 2:1.0~rc3+svn20090426-1ubuntu11 on Lucid Lynx 64-bit.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Nov 21 20:38:03 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: mplayer (not installed)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=
 LANG=C
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-4.5-generic
RelatedPackageVersions:
 libavcodec52 4:0.5+svn20090706-2ubuntu3
 libavcodec-extra-52 N/A
SourcePackage: mplayer
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-4-generic x86_64
UserConf: # Write your default config options here!
system: distro = Ubuntu, architecture = x86_64, kernel = 2.6.32-4-generic