flac dev - Nov 2007 - xmms-flac security update breaks XMMS' flac-playing ability

Hello,

First post to this group.  I've been searching for about a week now to 
find anyone who can solve this problem or point me to the solution.

I've been a happy xmms-flac user for 4 years until this week when some 
new FLAC security updates came along and completely stopped XMMS from 
playing FLACs on my PC.  This is most irritating as I have over 3,500 
CDs ripped and FLAC'd in my personal music library.

Whenever I run xmms via bash, this is what I see:

Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate loadable module in module_path: 
"libpixmap.so",
/usr/lib/xmms/Input/libxmms-flac.so: undefined symbol: safe_malloc_mul_2op_

What is the fix for this?

I use an Ubuntu variant called Linux Mint 2.2.

Thanks,
Myke

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Myke Carter <mykec@mykec.net>
The Mykec Network <http://mykec.net>
Paris, KY 40361-1013

that missing symbol appears only in libFLAC 1.2.1 or later, so it
sounds like the version dependencies in xmms-flac were not set up
to automatically pull in 1.2.1.  check the versions of the other
flac packages on the machine (not sure what they're called in
ubuntu but probably flac or libflac) and make sure they're up to
1.2.1

--- Myke Carter <mykec@mykec.net> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> First post to this group.  I've been searching for about a week now
> to 
> find anyone who can solve this problem or point me to the solution.
> 
> I've been a happy xmms-flac user for 4 years until this week when
> some 
> new FLAC security updates came along and completely stopped XMMS from
> playing FLACs on my PC.  This is most irritating as I have over 3,500
> CDs ripped and FLAC'd in my personal music library.
> 
> Whenever I run xmms via bash, this is what I see:
> 
> Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate loadable module in module_path: 
> "libpixmap.so",
> /usr/lib/xmms/Input/libxmms-flac.so: undefined symbol:
> safe_malloc_mul_2op_
> 
> What is the fix for this?
> 
> I use an Ubuntu variant called Linux Mint 2.2.
> 
> Thanks,
> Myke

     
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Josh Coalson wrote:
> that missing symbol appears only in libFLAC 1.2.1 or later, so it
> sounds like the version dependencies in xmms-flac were not set up
> to automatically pull in 1.2.1.  check the versions of the other
> flac packages on the machine (not sure what they're called in
> ubuntu but probably flac or libflac) and make sure they're up to
> 1.2.1
Thanks.  Your answer gives me hope. :)

Here is a screenshot of everything 'flac' on my system.
http://mykec.com/mykec/flac.png

As you can see they all seem to indicate version 1.1.2-5...

As for upgrading them to 1.2.1, I'm not sure of how to do that with this 
Synaptic package management system where everything is provided 
automatically by The Powers That Be.

Is there a way to do that without installing everything from source and 
breaking away from the way this distro handles upgrades?

Myke

-- 
Myke Carter <mykec@mykec.net>
The Mykec Network <http://mykec.net>
Paris, KY 40361-1013