64bit linux -- can't play anything

[hwangste]

Aha! I think I've solved it (at least for my install). Rokclimb15- your comment above about delibalta having both libudev.so.1 and libudev.so.0 got me thinking. I also had both of those and I poked around to see where they came from. libudev.so.0 came from the libudev0 package and libudev.so.1 came from the libudev1 package. On Debian unstable, at least, libudev0 no longer exists as a package for amd64. It does exist for several other unofficial architectures (see http://packages.debian.org/sid/libudev0 for details). At some point it must have been removed from amd64 and replaced with libudev1. However, the system doesn't get rid of libudev0 when libudev1 is installed (there isn't a conflicts or anything specified in the package; perhaps there isn't supposed to be one- I don't know what the usual procedure is for these situations). Anyhow, I removed the libudev0 package and all of a sudden dolphin loads games without crashing.

It wouldn't surprise me if many of the folks who have this problem and are using Debian (or a related distro) have both packages installed as well. On the two other Debian amd64 systems I have, one (an older one that hasn't been updated as regularly) only has libudev0. The other has both libudev0 and libudev1. If you are experiencing the problem of dolphin crashing when trying to load any game, I'd try purging the libudev0 package. Hope this helps someone else.

Do you guys think this is worth filing a bug against the libudev0 or libudev1 packages in Debian?