Work around a glibc 2.6.1 bug with dlopen. We try to dlopen a .so file that only contains debug symbols (e.g. no architecture is set in the elf header) #0 0x4000a88c in _dl_relocate_object () from /lib/ld-linux.so.3 (gdb) bt #0 0x4000a88c in _dl_relocate_object () from /lib/ld-linux.so.3 #1 0x40011f68 in dl_open_worker () from /lib/ld-linux.so.3 #2 0x4000d7e4 in _dl_catch_error () from /lib/ld-linux.so.3 #3 0x400117d8 in _dl_open () from /lib/ld-linux.so.3 #4 0x402fba84 in dlopen_doit () from /lib/libdl.so.2 #5 0x4000d7e4 in _dl_catch_error () from /lib/ld-linux.so.3 #6 0x402fbf50 in _dlerror_run () from /lib/libdl.so.2 #7 0x402fb9bc in dlopen@@GLIBC_2.4 () from /lib/libdl.so.2 #8 0x402f2790 in g_module_open () from /usr/lib/libgmodule-2.0.so.0 #9 0x40078784 in gst_plugin_load_file ( filename=0x10a6c8 "/usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/.debug/libgstcoreindexers.so", error=0x0) at gstplugin.c:481 #10 0x4007e3c4 in gst_registry_scan_path_level (registry=0x27828, path=0x10a6a0 "/usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/.debug", level=1) at gstregistry.c:891 #11 0x4007df04 in gst_registry_scan_path_level (registry=0x27828, Index: gstreamer-0.10.17/gst/gstregistry.c =================================================================== --- gstreamer-0.10.17.orig/gst/gstregistry.c 2008-11-14 23:30:48.000000000 +0100 +++ gstreamer-0.10.17/gst/gstregistry.c 2008-11-14 23:32:39.000000000 +0100 @@ -813,7 +813,10 @@ GST_LOG_OBJECT (registry, "examining file: %s", filename); if (g_file_test (filename, G_FILE_TEST_IS_DIR)) { - if (level > 0) { + if (g_str_has_suffix (filename, ".debug")) { + GST_LOG_OBJECT (registry, + "found directory, not descending into .debug directory"); + } else if (level > 0) { GST_LOG_OBJECT (registry, "found directory, recursing"); changed |= gst_registry_scan_path_level (registry, filename, level - 1); } else {