Re: [gentoo-user] WinXP under VMWare: no sound

[Sergio Polini <sp_rm_it@yahoo.it>]

Richard Fish:
> On 11/8/06, Sergio Polini <sp_rm_it@yahoo.it> wrote:
> > > Sergio,  try doing chmod +s on
> > > /emul/linux/x86/usr/lib/libaoss.so
> >
> > There is no such file!
>
> Hold up.  Previously you posted:
> [cut]
> If this file doesn't exist,

That file esists. I was looking in /emul/linux/x86/lib. ;-)

> If instead you have "emul/.../libaoss.so.0.0.0", then change
> the LD_PRELOAD in aoss32 to:
>
> LD_PRELOAD=${exec_prefix}/lib/libaoss.so.0.0.0${LD_PRELOAD:+:$LD_PR
>ELOAD}
>
> I would also add an echo for debugging after that:
>
> echo "running with LD_PRELOAD=$LD_PRELOAD"

If I write:

LD_PRELOAD=${exec_prefix}/lib/libaoss.so.0.0.0${LD_PRELOAD:+:
$LD_PRELOAD}   exec "$@"
echo "running with LD_PRELOAD=$LD_PRELOAD"

I get:
[sp ~]$ aoss32 vmware
ERROR: ld.so: object '/emul/linux/x86/usr/lib/libaoss.so.0.0.0' from 
LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored.
(five times)

and the echo statement is not executed.
If I write:
  LD_PRELOAD=${exec_prefix}/lib/libaoss.so.0.0.0${LD_PRELOAD:+:
$LD_PRELOAD}  echo "running with LD_PRELOAD=$LD_PRELOAD" && exec "$@"

I get:
[sp ~]$ aoss32 vmware
running with LD_PRELOAD=

?
However: no preloading error message, but sound does not work.
BTW: are you sure sure that one can still set LD_PRELOAD to an 
*absolute* path? 

> Are you actually logged into KDE as root, or as your normal user?

Always as a normal user. I open a "new root shell" in Konsole when I 
wish to be root.

> What happens when you run "artsplay
> /usr/kde/3.5/share/sounds/KDE_Startup_1.ogg" as root?  under your
> user account?

I can hear the sound.

> This is a shell script (your clue is the size).  The actual binary
> that executes the virtual machine (and this needs to produce sound)
> is in /opt/vmware/workstation/lib/bin, and is named vmware-vmx.  It
> is almost certainly setuid.

Right. I apologize for my foolishness/laziness. Let me say that I was 
a bit tired yesterday evening ;-)

> I really don't understand why aoss would only work as root.  I
> suspect a path or environment issue here, possibly a different
> library is actually being loaded.  I suspect this has more to do
> with the actual path to the library being loaded as root versus
> your user account.

On Marc 27th, 2005 you wrote in a VMWare Forum:
> Ok, I got it figured out. It seems that in response to GLSA
> 200408-16, Gentoo made a patch that in addition to fixing the
> LD_DEBUG vulnerability, moved the cleansing of the environment
> to before the values were saved. This part of the change is not in
> the official glibc CVS source, and the patch is not applied for
> glibc-2.3.4.20050125-r1 (currently marked for testing...).
> So Gentoo users will need to upgrade their glibc to at least
> 2.3.4.20050125 to use LD_PRELOAD with setuid binaries.       

Are you sure that that has not been reverted in glibc 2.4-r3?

> I'm going to try installing workstation on my amd64 desktop and see
> what I get.

Thanks!!!

Sergio
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