Re: ffmpeg: error while loading shared libraries: (...): file too short

[Tobias Geerinckx-Rice]

Alex,

Something is amiss on your box.

Alex Vong wrote:
> Does anyone has the same problem with ffmpeg from latest master? 
> I've
> got the following error:
>
> ========================================================================
> address@hidden:~$ ffmpeg --help
> ffmpeg: error while loading shared libraries: 
> /gnu/store/4hcr7ygdhaxws6q5dj806cbvq0dkfgkw-ffmpeg-4.1.1/lib/libavdevice.so.58: 
> file too short
> ========================================================================

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
λ file -L 
/gnu/store/4hcr7ygdhaxws6q5dj806cbvq0dkfgkw-ffmpeg-4.1.1/lib/libavdevice.so.58
/gnu/store/4hcr7ygdhaxws6q5dj806cbvq0dkfgkw-ffmpeg-4.1.1/lib/libavdevice.so.58: 
ELF 64-bit LSB pie executable x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), 
dynamically linked, stripped

λ ls -lh 
/gnu/store/4hcr7ygdhaxws6q5dj806cbvq0dkfgkw-ffmpeg-4.1.1/lib/libavdevice.so.58.5.100 
-r-xr-xr-x 2 root root 152K Jan  1  1970 
/gnu/store/4hcr7ygdhaxws6q5dj806cbvq0dkfgkw-ffmpeg-4.1.1/lib/libavdevice.so.58.5.100
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Have you fsck'd your file system lately?

T G-R