Problem with xfce-mcs-manager and sound_settings plugin

[Alexander Toresson]

On 4/24/07, Landry Breuil <landry.breuil at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> i'm currently updating Xfce to 4.4.1 in OpenBSD, and i struggle in an issue
> with xfce-mcs-manager.
>
> mcs-plugins/sound_settings.so installed by xfce4-mixer cannot be loaded into
> manager :
>
> (xfce-mcs-manager:552): xfce-mcs-manager-WARNING **: Module
> /usr/local/lib/xfce4/mcs-plugins/sound_settings.so cannot
> be opened (Cannot load specified object)
>
> Other mcs-plugins are correctly loaded/shown (apart
> xscreensaver_settings.so, but i assume it's normal as xscreensaver is not
> available/installed), and all plugins are installed in the same directory :
> /usr/local/lib/xfce4/mcs-plugins/
>
> I see in
> http://svn.xfce.org/svn/xfce/xfce-mcs-manager/tags/xfce_4_4_1/xfce-mcs-manager/xfce-mcs-manager.c
> that g_module_open() fails, what can i change to get more debug information
> ? a dlopen() fails ? with a simple test program, is it possible to test
> mcs-plugin 'integrity' ? nm on the .so file shows lots of syms, but no
> g_module_* call, is it normal (others have g_module_check_init()) ?
>
> nm /usr/local/lib/xfce4/mcs-plugins/sound_settings.so |
> grep g_module => nothing
>
> using gtk+2-2.8.20 and glib2-2.10.3..
> should i file a bug report ?
>
> Thanks,
> Landry
>

Did you try just running ldd on the .so file?

Regards, Alexander Toresson