Ubuntu - elves and magic? Odd messages from Gandalf?

Diss · 22 Apr 2006 at 11:39

Hi

Have i got the "Lord of the Rings" virus

I was updating Dapper with some multimedia stuff and i got these messages:

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Setting up libfaad2-0 (2.0.0+cvs20040908+mp4v2+bmp-0ubuntu3) ...
ldconfig: /usr/X11R6/lib/libXvMCNVIDIA.so.1.0.8756 is not an ELF file - it has the wrong magic bytes at the start.

ldconfig: /usr/X11R6/lib/libXvMCNVIDIA_dynamic.so.1 is not an ELF file - it has the wrong magic bytes at the start.

Setting up faad (2.0.0+cvs20040908+mp4v2+bmp-0ubuntu3) ...
Setting up libimlib2 (1.2.1-2) ...
ldconfig: /usr/X11R6/lib/libXvMCNVIDIA.so.1.0.8756 is not an ELF file - it has the wrong magic bytes at the start.

ldconfig: /usr/X11R6/lib/libXvMCNVIDIA_dynamic.so.1 is not an ELF file - it has the wrong magic bytes at the start.

Setting up ffmpeg (0.cvs20050918-5ubuntu1) ...
Setting up gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg (0.10.1-0ubuntu1) ...
Setting up gstreamer0.10-gl (0.10.1-0ubuntu1) ...
Setting up liblame0 (3.96.1-1) ...
ldconfig: /usr/X11R6/lib/libXvMCNVIDIA.so.1.0.8756 is not an ELF file - it has the wrong magic bytes at the start.

ldconfig: /usr/X11R6/lib/libXvMCNVIDIA_dynamic.so.1 is not an ELF file - it has the wrong magic bytes at the start.
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Any idea what this means (does it even matter?) and how i put it right?

Many thanks

Diss

edit
i also get it when doing this:
sudo apt-get install kaffeine-mozilla

gib786 · 22 Apr 2006 at 11:56

my mate says its not a virus, somethings broken

leezer3 · 22 Apr 2006 at 12:11

Hiya,
ELF is an executable format (Bit like .exe files on Windows really). The installer is complaining as the .so files that it expects to be executable (Driver modules) aren't. Sounds like the package maintainer has bust something somewhere, just wait and they should be fixed within 24hrs or so.

(Yes, the errors do matter- Anything that depends on those libraries is gonna be bust, might be an idea raising a bug report in the Dapper section of the Ubuntu forums.)

Cheers

-Leezer-

Diss · 22 Apr 2006 at 12:43

thanks leezer3

As a matter of interest are the .so files 'sound' files? Only i have an X-Fi soundcard for which there are absolutely NO drivers at the moment!

Thanks

Diss

Dunky · 22 Apr 2006 at 13:22

The equivalent of a .so file on Windows is a .dll . .so are executable library files. It's a strange error indeed. It sounds like a bug with the NVidia drivers, have a look at ubuntuforums.org and if there's anything similar there. Also make sure you are running the latest kernel (2.6.15-20).

leezer3 · 22 Apr 2006 at 17:16

The dll analogy is probably slightly more accurate

As I said though, this is one of the inevitable breakages in Dapper (It is in heavy beta after all

) Wait a while & post a bug report on the forum and it will be fixed.

Cheers

-Leezer-

Diss · 23 Apr 2006 at 07:18

thanks all

i have logged it as a bug

Diss

Una · 23 Apr 2006 at 13:22

EDIT: Strange bug, it sounds the package file have got corrupt somehow. The magic bytes at the start of the file identify the file type (roughly

)