Error while loading shared libraries: libvpx.so.9

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1

Hi everyone,

I’ve started to get an error when trying to launch some packages (mpv & spectacle are the one I noticed, but there might be more).

Both won’t open at all. If i try to launch them in the terminal, this is what I get :

╭─heckza@garuda in ~ took 0s
╰─λ mpv
mpv: error while loading shared libraries: libvpx.so.9: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I asked GPT to help me a little. From what I can understand the libvpx.so.9 no longer exist since i have a newer version but some packages are still looking for it for some reasons.

╭─heckza@garuda in ~ as 🧙 took 45s
╰─λ ls -l /usr/lib/libvpx.so*
lrwxrwxrwx    - root 24 Sep 12:58  /usr/lib/libvpx.so -> libvpx.so.11.0.1
lrwxrwxrwx    - root  7 Jul  2020  /usr/lib/libvpx.so.1 -> libvpx.so.1.3.0
lrwxrwxrwx    - root  7 Jul  2020  /usr/lib/libvpx.so.1.3 -> libvpx.so.1.3.0
.rwxr-xr-x 1.7M root  7 Jul  2020  /usr/lib/libvpx.so.1.3.0
lrwxrwxrwx    - root 24 Sep 12:58  /usr/lib/libvpx.so.11 -> libvpx.so.11.0.1
lrwxrwxrwx    - root 24 Sep 12:58  /usr/lib/libvpx.so.11.0 -> libvpx.so.11.0.1
.rwxr-xr-x 3.3M root 24 Sep 12:58  /usr/lib/libvpx.so.11.0.1

I’m afraid of breaking stuff, but I tried, reinstalling packages, ( -Rns ). I tried different suggestion from GPT, but they were mostly for the mpv problem before I saw that Spectacle was also having the same issue, which might suggest I have more packages with the exact same problem.

Apart from Updating (garuda-update / flatpak update & yay -Syu), I did not retry anything just in case it might brake something.

Any help would be nice.

Thanks

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2

Heya, could we see the complete package list?

pacman -Q | garuda-privatebin

3

hereM’s the package list

4

Heya. Database wise, everything seems to be in order.

Can you try the following and post the full output of all of the commands? (Just select all and paste into https://bin.garudalinux.org, should be fine)

which spectacle
ldd /usr/bin/spectacle
sudo pacman -S spectacle
ldd /usr/bin/spectacle
/usr/bin/spectacle
5

done!

6

2 posts were merged into an existing topic: Chaotic-AUR | Packages | Requests | Recompilation | Reports

8

Okay so, investigating this further something just… seems weird.

You are getting the same package version but a completely different binary…

Are you using any custom pacman repositories?

Could we get the output of garuda-diag for some more through logs?

9

I’d don’t think I use any custom repos … if I do have some, I didn’t know!

Usually I’ll install packages with pacman first, if it finds nothing I’ll do a search ( -Ss ) and install the version from extras or chaotic

else i’ll try yay

or get a Flatpak or Appimage!

That’s mostly what I do for installing packages. (sometimes installed from github too)

Before I removed MPV Media Player and reinstalled it, it was from the chaotic or extras (don’t remember precisely which one)

Spectacle was default with KDE, so I never touched it.

if I don’t reply to you fast, it’s because I went to sleep, it’s 1:00am here lol

10

I’m sorry this just makes no sense…

You reinstalled spectacle, and I’m literally comparing it against my own spectacle, and you literally have an entirely different binary.

11

negative, I looked at my command history and I have not reinstalled Spectacle, only MPV.

I came here as soon as I saw that Spectacle was also having the same error when I typed “spectacle” in the terminal.
(when trying to do a screenshot, i got a Launch Failed notification saying : Could not activate remote peer ‘org.kde.spectacle’: startup job failed ), that when I tried opening it from terminal to see if it was the same error as MPV that can’t launch too)

You can see my command history starting with spectacle

12

Hi
TL:DR

Can you check if you have this package installed ?

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paru -S libvpx

ps. now i see the error too didnt updated today my fault.

:: Synchronising package databases...
garuda downloading...
core downloading...
extra downloading...
multilib downloading...
chaotic-aur downloading...
spawn pacman -Su
:: Starting full system upgrade...
warning: snapper-tools: local (1.3.1-1.6) is newer than chaotic-aur (1.3.1-1)
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: installing libvpx (1.15.2-2) breaks dependency 'libvpx.so=9-64' required by avidemux-core-git
:: installing x264 (3:0.165.r3222.b35605a-2) breaks dependency 'libx264.so=164-64' required by avidemux-core-git
:: installing x264 (3:0.165.r3222.b35605a-2) breaks dependency 'libx264.so=164-64' required by avidemux-qt6-git
13

wired ive updated all no issues .

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14

ps. did you try mpv path to file directly ?

yay -Syu i dont know if this are good because for AUR packages on garuda i just use garuda-update -a. I dont use flatpaks

15

I already gave this information in the opening post. version 9 is nowhere to be found since it was updated to the latest version.

16

the garuda-update never update my AUR packages!

because I do yay -Syu right after my reboot, and all my packages are out of date every time and it takes around 1H to update the few AUR packages I have to update. lol

17

The problem is not libvpx. The issue is mpv and spectacle. You have the latest version, but your latest version is not like the latest version everyone else has… Your spectacle and mpv are not the same. Our mpv and spectacle needs libvpx 11, yours needs version 9. I don’t know how this is happening.

18

if it can help, when I was trying GPT stuff a little, I pasted an output and It started to talk about Snapshots

What I pasted :

🔍] × which mpv 
/usr/bin/mpv 

╰─λ pacman -Qo $(which mpv) 
/usr/bin/mpv is owned by mpv 1:0.40.0-7 

╰─λ ldd $(which mpv) | grep vpx 
libvpx.so.9 => not found 

╰─λ sudo find / -type f -name mpv -executable 2>/dev/null 
/usr/bin/mpv 
/.snapshots/773/snapshot/usr/bin/mpv 
/.snapshots/774/snapshot/usr/bin/mpv 
/.snapshots/775/snapshot/usr/bin/mpv
/.snapshots/778/snapshot/usr/bin/mpv
/.snapshots/779/snapshot/usr/bin/mpv
/.snapshots/780/snapshot/usr/bin/mpv
/.snapshots/781/snapshot/usr/bin/mpv
/.snapshots/782/snapshot/usr/bin/mpv
/.snapshots/783/snapshot/usr/bin/mpv
/.snapshots/786/snapshot/usr/bin/mpv
/.snapshots/787/snapshot/usr/bin/mpv
/.snapshots/788/snapshot/usr/bin/mpv
/.snapshots/789/snapshot/usr/bin/mpv
/.snapshots/790/snapshot/usr/bin/mpv

[🔴] × mpv --version 
mpv: error while loading shared libraries: libvpx.so.9: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

What it replied :

Ah — now it’s crystal clear. 🔍

Even though /usr/bin/mpv is owned by the official Arch package, it’s still linked against libvpx.so.9. That shouldn’t happen with mpv 0.40.0-7 on Arch — the package in the repo is built against libvpx.so.11.

The reason: your /usr/bin/mpv binary is stale, probably because your system was restored from snapshots or manually overwritten, which left an old binary that still expects libvpx.so.9.

The multiple entries in /.snapshots/.../usr/bin/mpv also suggest you’re on Btrfs with snapshots — the system might be executing an old snapshot binary, or pacman didn’t overwrite the existing file because of snapshots.
19

yes but thats why i wrote use this (again) may was unclear in the post.

garuda-update -a

or

garuda-update --aur

can you try to restore a snapshot before you got this issues?

otherwise you can try to downgrade libvpx back to the erlierer 1.15.0-1 version. This is not helping on your spectacle problem.

May you try to reinstall all again .

garuda-update remote fullfix

Dont trust AI stuuff at all!!! They dont know how the system is made it can just guessing. Your in charge if the system breaks because you did the chatgpt stuff lol.

20

This is just wrong. The AI is hallucinating. That’s not how that works.

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I’ll believe you lol