Sound in pidgin stopped working

chekuthan · 2016-11-07 13:23:23

Sound in pidgin suddenly stopped working today im not getting any message sent/recieved sound notifications

Error log when pidgin when run from CLI:

(gst-plugin-scanner:4233): GStreamer-WARNING **: Failed to load plugin '/usr/lib/gstreamer-1.0/libgstfaac.so': libfaac.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

(gst-plugin-scanner:4233): GStreamer-WARNING **: Failed to load plugin '/usr/lib/gstreamer-1.0/libgstsoundtouch.so': libSoundTouch.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

(gst-plugin-scanner:4233): GStreamer-WARNING **: Failed to load plugin '/usr/lib/gstreamer-1.0/libgstfluidsynthmidi.so': libfluidsynth.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

(gst-plugin-scanner:4233): GStreamer-WARNING **: Failed to load plugin '/usr/lib/gstreamer-1.0/libgstspandsp.so': libspandsp.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

(gst-plugin-scanner:4233): GStreamer-WARNING **: Failed to load plugin '/usr/lib/gstreamer-1.0/libgstfdkaac.so': libfdk-aac.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

(gst-plugin-scanner:4233): GStreamer-WARNING **: Failed to load plugin '/usr/lib/gstreamer-1.0/libgstwildmidi.so': libWildMidi.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

(gst-plugin-scanner:4233): GStreamer-WARNING **: Failed to load plugin '/usr/lib/gstreamer-1.0/libgstzbar.so': libzbar.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

(gst-plugin-scanner:4233): GStreamer-WARNING **: Failed to load plugin '/usr/lib/gstreamer-1.0/libgstqmlgl.so': libQt5Quick.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

(gst-plugin-scanner:4233): GStreamer-WARNING **: Failed to load plugin '/usr/lib/gstreamer-1.0/libgstvulkan.so': libvulkan.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

The error says no such file or directory but these files exists in my system

Error logs in pidgin debug window:

(16:02:51) gtkspell: Failed to setup GtkSpell: enchant error for language: en_US.UTF-8
(16:03:08) gstreamer: The stream is of a different type than handled by this element.

I already tried reinstalling pidgin, gstreamer and plugins but nothing helped. how to fix this?

Last edited by chekuthan (2016-11-07 14:41:29)

R00KIE · 2016-11-07 13:47:12

You might want to install pkgfile and check which packages provide those .so files, then install them and see if the problem goes away. As a side note, pkgfile can be very handy in these cases of missing (optional) libraries to check which package provides them.

chekuthan · 2016-11-07 14:51:45

Those files belong to gst-plugins-bad reinstalling didn't solve the probelem

Last edited by chekuthan (2016-11-07 15:07:21)

R00KIE · 2016-11-07 15:09:55

Make sure your system is fully up to date and that you are not using an outdated mirror, and do 'pacman -Syyuu'. Are you using testing or any related packages from the AUR?

Do those messages show up right after you run pidgin or do you need to do something to trigger them?

chekuthan · 2016-11-07 16:15:46

R00KIE wrote:

Make sure your system is fully up to date and that you are not using an outdated mirror, and do 'pacman -Syyuu'. Are you using testing or any related packages from the AUR?

System is up to date with succesfully syncing mirrors and not using any testing packages i have the following AUR packages installed:

byzanz-git 0.2.1.126.g81235d2-1
cinnamon-sound-effects 5.2-1
cower 16-1
dirbuster 1.0_RC1-10
grub-customizer 5.0.6-1
gtk-theme-arc-flatabulous-git r668.bb41d28-1
gtkhash 0.7.0-3
gtkhash-nemo 0.7.0-3
i3-gaps-git 4.12-1
i3blocks 1.4-3
mint-sounds 2.0.9-1
mint-x-icons 1.3.9-1
mint-x-theme 1.8-1
neofetch 1.9.1-1
numix-circle-icon-theme-git 0.r6.48788c9-1
numix-icon-theme-git 0.r1872.3c9380d-1
pacaur 4.6.10-1
pepper-flash 23.0.0.205-1
psi-plus-git 0.16.568.607-1
qconf-git 1.5_20161106-1
spotify 1.0.42.145-1
toilet 0.3-1
tor-browser-en 6.0.5-1
visual-studio-code 1.7.1-1
vivaldi 1.4.589.38-1

R00KIE wrote:

Do those messages show up right after you run pidgin or do you need to do something to trigger them?

The "No such file or directory" error shows up right after i run pidgin and the "gstreamer: The stream is of a different type than handled by this element." is shown when a sound event is triggered (sending/receiving a message)

R00KIE · 2016-11-07 16:24:19

Then as an example, if you have the package that provides libgstfaac.so installed, what does 'file /usr/lib/gstreamer-1.0/libgstfaac.so' say? The same goes to the other files not found. You might also want to run 'pacman -Qkk' and see if anything is amiss.

chekuthan · 2016-11-07 16:45:02

R00KIE wrote:

Then as an example, if you have the package that provides libgstfaac.so installed, what does 'file /usr/lib/gstreamer-1.0/libgstfaac.so' say? The same goes to the other files not found. You might also want to run 'pacman -Qkk' and see if anything is amiss.

/usr/lib/gstreamer-1.0/libgstfaac.so: ELF 64-bit LSB shared object, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, BuildID[sha1]=148435891f7bc605c3af1f9ec272c8170a6d9636, stripped

/usr/lib/gstreamer-1.0/libgstsoundtouch.so: ELF 64-bit LSB shared object, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, BuildID[sha1]=1278a99ff5cc91650661ae8ac31833cd55c790a9, stripped

/usr/lib/gstreamer-1.0/libgstfluidsynthmidi.so: ELF 64-bit LSB shared object, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, BuildID[sha1]=10b125a2b1eef149683b8a2e77c06b9d968ce39d, stripped

/usr/lib/gstreamer-1.0/libgstspandsp.so: ELF 64-bit LSB shared object, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, BuildID[sha1]=c30ba0d1f4ce54b05859fab12453c47d2c106094, stripped

/usr/lib/gstreamer-1.0/libgstfdkaac.so: ELF 64-bit LSB shared object, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, BuildID[sha1]=01ff873576fa87527a4dd3bd35cc6a80f92973d1, stripped

/usr/lib/gstreamer-1.0/libgstwildmidi.so: ELF 64-bit LSB shared object, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, BuildID[sha1]=45decdb19c8e8e9f686aaf196354d4b5161dc8fa, stripped

/usr/lib/gstreamer-1.0/libgstzbar.so: ELF 64-bit LSB shared object, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, BuildID[sha1]=9b774306ab0ac26ab9e7ee16c46718b419d70789, stripped

/usr/lib/gstreamer-1.0/libgstqmlgl.so: ELF 64-bit LSB shared object, x86-64, version 1 (GNU/Linux), dynamically linked, BuildID[sha1]=845af794223f2d8117285554c0bf03fb7f59ce89, stripped

/usr/lib/gstreamer-1.0/libgstvulkan.so: ELF 64-bit LSB shared object, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, BuildID[sha1]=43b5fda118e750400ce6c6577fd85f5a433f3d51, stripped

output of pacman -Qkk http://pastebin.com/Yew1U0Xs

Last edited by chekuthan (2016-11-07 16:46:49)

R00KIE · 2016-11-07 17:37:01

I don't see anything that would point to a problem. I suspect you really are missing some dependencies that are not declared anywhere in the package.

In my system I have installed farstream-0.1 which pulls many if not all of the missing dependencies. You could try installing that, alternatively you can check what provides libfaac.so.0 (and the others) and install the packages separately.

You might want to submit a bug report[1] about either missing dependencies / optional dependencies. I'm not sure why it got broken now, maybe you have removed some dependency that apparently wasn't required anymore or you removed something that depended on those and they got removed. Check your pacman log and see if since the last time pidgin worked you have removed some of the missing dependencies.

[1] https://bugs.archlinux.org/

Arch Linux

#1 2016-11-07 13:23:23

Sound in pidgin stopped working

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