Your message dated Mon, 6 Mar 2017 01:36:07 +0200 with message-id <20170305233607.tj7od2sfummjvt2a@localhost> and subject line Re: Bug#856901: chromium doesn't start with "version LIBAVCODEC_57 not defined" has caused the Debian Bug report #856901, regarding chromium doesn't start with "version LIBAVCODEC_57 not defined" to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: chromium Version: 56.0.2924.76-5 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Dear maintainers, starting chromium fails on 56.0.2924.76-5 ; starting from command line yields /usr/lib/chromium/chromium: relocation error: /usr/lib/chromium/chromium: symbol avcodec_parameters_to_context, version LIBAVCODEC_57 not defined in file libavcodec.so.57 with link time reference and no process is started. Reverting to testing 56.0.2924.76-4 also fails Only the stable version starts. The problem seems to have appeared in v56. Best, Ara -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages chromium depends on: ii libasound2 1.1.3-5 ii libatk1.0-0 2.22.0-1 ii libavcodec57 10:3.0-dmo4 ii libavformat57 10:3.0-dmo4 ii libavutil55 10:3.0-dmo4 ii libc6 2.24-9 ii libcairo2 1.14.8-1 ii libcups2 2.2.1-8 ii libdbus-1-3 1.10.16-1 ii libevent-2.0-5 2.0.21-stable-3 ii libexpat1 2.2.0-2 ii libflac8 1.3.2-1 ii libfontconfig1 2.11.0-6.7+b1 ii libfreetype6 2.6.3-3+b2 ii libgcc1 1:6.3.0-8 ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.36.5-2 ii libglib2.0-0 2.50.3-1 ii libgtk2.0-0 2.24.31-2 ii libharfbuzz0b 1.4.2-1 ii libicu57 57.1-5 ii libjpeg62-turbo 1:1.5.1-2 pn libminizip1 <none> ii libnspr4 2:4.12-6 ii libnss3 2:3.26.2-1 ii libpango-1.0-0 1.40.4-1 ii libpangocairo-1.0-0 1.40.4-1 ii libpng16-16 1.6.28-1 ii libpulse0 10.0-1 ii libre2-3 20170101+dfsg-1 ii libsnappy1v5 1.1.4-1 ii libstdc++6 6.3.0-8 ii libvpx4 1.6.1-2 ii libwebp6 0.5.2-1 ii libwebpdemux2 0.5.2-1 ii libx11-6 2:1.6.4-3 ii libx11-xcb1 2:1.6.4-3 ii libxcb1 1.12-1 ii libxcomposite1 1:0.4.4-2 ii libxcursor1 1:1.1.14-1+b1 ii libxdamage1 1:1.1.4-2+b1 ii libxext6 2:1.3.3-1 ii libxfixes3 1:5.0.3-1 ii libxi6 2:1.7.9-1 ii libxml2 2.9.4+dfsg1-2.2 ii libxrandr2 2:1.5.1-1 ii libxrender1 1:0.9.10-1 ii libxslt1.1 1.1.29-2 ii libxss1 1:1.2.2-1 ii libxtst6 2:1.2.3-1 ii x11-utils 7.7+3+b1 ii xdg-utils 1.1.1-1 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-5 Versions of packages chromium recommends: ii fonts-liberation 1:1.07.4-2 Versions of packages chromium suggests: pn chromium-driver <none> pn chromium-l10n <none> pn chromium-shell <none> pn chromium-widevine <none> -- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---On Mon, Mar 06, 2017 at 12:01:24AM +0100, Ara Keary wrote: >... > starting chromium fails on 56.0.2924.76-5 ; starting from command line yields > > /usr/lib/chromium/chromium: relocation error: /usr/lib/chromium/chromium: > symbol avcodec_parameters_to_context, version LIBAVCODEC_57 not defined in > file > libavcodec.so.57 with link time reference >... > Versions of packages chromium depends on: >... > ii libavcodec57 10:3.0-dmo4 > ii libavformat57 10:3.0-dmo4 > ii libavutil55 10:3.0-dmo4 >... I am confident it will work when you install the 3.2.4 packages from Debian instead of the packages from deb-multimedia. (Upgrading to the latest packages from deb-multimedia could also work.) cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed
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