[PlanetCCRMA] mysterious errors from ams "Could not find LADSPA plugin gverb from library gverb 1216"

Fernando Lopez-Lezcano nando@ccrma.Stanford.EDU
Mon Jul 3 11:11:42 2006


On Sun, 2006-07-02 at 22:32 -0400, Michael Tiemann wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-06-30 at 12:08 -0700, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
> 
> > Maybe there is something else missing other than freeverb?
> 
> Actually, what appears to be missing is the gverb plugin.  I have
> g2verb:
> 
> [tiemann@tiemann ~]$ ls -al /usr/lib/ladspa/g2reverb.so
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 14624 May 13 21:59 /usr/lib/ladspa/g2reverb.so
> 
> but I don't seem to have gverb.so, which the example preset depends
> upon:
> 
> [line 50 of /usr/share/ams/instruments/example_presets.ams]: Module 6 7 507 72 0 gverb_1216 gverb

You need to install swh-plugins, that's the collection that includes
gverb...

> I also did some checking around with SE Linux flags and found that (1) I
> already had the compatibility option checked for pf text reloc, and (2)
> the file caps.so (in /usr/lib/ladspa) did not have the execute
> permission bit set, which SE Linux properly flagged.  When I fixed this
> permission bit, SE Linux was happy again. 

Ha, good catch! Thanks for the feedback!
-- Fernando

> So I think my problem is that
> ams is not yet packaged perfectly for its instrument presets.