Description of problem: Attempting to load X-Plane which requires the libopenal.so.0 library. Get following error during load: ./X-Plane-i586: symbol lookup error: ./X-Plane-i586: undefined symbol: alutInit Further investigation shows that the library has had symbols stripped: nm /usr/lib/libopenal.so.0.0.0 nm: /usr/lib/libopenal.so.0.0.0: no symbols Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): openal-0.0.9-0.2.20060204cvs.fc4 How reproducible: Every time. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install X-plane 8.21 from DVD 2. Execute X-Plane-i586 3. select language 4. select ok 5. application exits with error: ./X-Plane-i586: symbol lookup error: ./X-Plane-i586: undefined symbol: alutInit Actual results: ./X-Plane-i586: symbol lookup error: ./X-Plane-i586: undefined symbol: alutInit Expected results: Successful execution of application Additional info:
This is not an openal bug... alutInit is part of freealut. In order to run applications which need it you must install freealut first. [10:11 AM][awjb@alkaid ~]$ objdump -T /usr/lib64/libalut.so.0 | grep alutInit 00000000000025a0 g DF .text 0000000000000054 Base alutInitWithoutContext 0000000000002600 g DF .text 00000000000000e0 Base alutInit
*** Bug 184063 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***