Slowroll and fmod

Blaazen · May 1, 2025, 12:15am

Hi,

after yesterday updates one game can’t start because of missing “fmod” (or “libfmod.so”) which is an audio interface. The game is from GOG (not from repos) and worked well more than a year.
Was “fmod” moved to different repository or removed?

My system is Slowroll, system packages from Packman.
My repos are: Packman Repository, Packman Essentials Repository,
openSUSE-Slowroll-Oss, openSUSE-Slowroll-Non-Oss,
libdvdcss, Open H.264 Codec, openSUSE-Slowroll-Update

Kernel 6.14.3-1.0.4.sr20250402-default (64-bit)
Plasma 6.3.4
KDE 6.12.0
Qt 6.8.2 and X11

Thanks for help.

Blaazen · May 2, 2025, 8:31pm

Solved. The issue is caused by updating glibc to version 2.41. This version patched some security holes and broke some older versions of fmod (libfmod.so) as a side effect. Several games in various distros wasn’t able to load the library.

Note that fmod comes with game - it is not library from Slowroll repositories.
Solution is to install execstack and run command:
$ execstack -c libmodf.so