[pkg-nvidia-devel] Bug#581570: Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_nvidia.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

[Stanislav Maslovski]

Package: nvidia-vdpau-driver
Version: 195.36.24-1
Severity: normal
Tags: sid

After upgrading to the last version of the nvidia blobs from sid I
could not anymore play movies in mplayer with -vo vdpau. This was the
error I got:
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Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_nvidia.so: cannot open shared
object file: No such file or directory
[vdpau] Error when calling vdp_device_create_x11: 1
Error opening/initializing the selected video_out (-vo) device.
-------------------------------------------------------------------
A quick investigation showed that the previos versions shipped a
symlink (or it was somehow autogenerated) /usr/lib/libvdpau_nvidia.so that
was pointing to the backend library. I found that after the upgrade
this symlink was broken (it was still pointing to the old library in
/usr/lib that was not there anymore). I tried running ldconf but that
did not help. Then I simply issued a

# ln -s /usr/lib/vdpau/libvdpau_nvidia.so.1 /usr/lib/libvdpau_nvidia.so

after which I could use -vo vdpau again.

-- Package-specific info:
uname -a:
Linux kaiba 2.6.32-5-minimal #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue May 4 02:01:45 MSD 2010 i686 GNU/Linux

/proc/version:
Linux version 2.6.32-5-minimal (2.6.32) (root at kaiba) (gcc version 4.4.4 (Debian 4.4.4-1) ) #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue May 4 02:01:45 MSD 2010

/proc/driver/nvidia/version: 
NVRM version: NVIDIA UNIX x86 Kernel Module  195.36.24  Thu Apr 22 09:18:20 PDT 2010
GCC version:  gcc version 4.4.4 (Debian 4.4.4-1) 

lspci 'VGA compatible controller [0300]':
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: nVidia Corporation G86 [GeForce 8400M GS] [10de:0427] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
	Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:0227]
	Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
	Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
	Latency: 0
	Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 16
	Region 0: Memory at fd000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
	Region 1: Memory at e0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
	Region 3: Memory at fa000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=32M]
	Region 5: I/O ports at ef00 [size=128]
	[virtual] Expansion ROM at fc000000 [disabled] [size=128K]
	Capabilities: <access denied>
	Kernel driver in use: nvidia


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers proposed-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'oldstable'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (100, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-minimal (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ru_RU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages nvidia-vdpau-driver depends on:
ii  libc6                        2.10.2-8    Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libx11-6                     2:1.3.3-3   X11 client-side library
ii  libxext6                     2:1.1.1-3   X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  nvidia-libvdpau1             195.36.24-1 NVIDIA vdpau libraries

Versions of packages nvidia-vdpau-driver recommends:
ii  nvidia-kernel-2.6. 195.36.24-1+2.6.32-12 NVIDIA binary kernel module for Li
ii  nvidia-kernel-2.6. 195.36.24-1+1         NVIDIA binary kernel module for Li
ii  nvidia-kernel-dkms 195.36.24-1           NVIDIA binary kernel module DKMS s

Versions of packages nvidia-vdpau-driver suggests:
ii  nvidia-kernel-dkms           195.36.24-1 NVIDIA binary kernel module DKMS s
ii  nvidia-kernel-source         195.36.24-1 NVIDIA binary kernel module source

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