Debugging ld, "Mismatch detected by ld.so"

Question

I am trying to use a widget library called GLV for the application I am developing. I am running Linux Mint 17. I installed all the libraries and I managed to create the GLV library, but when I try to run one of the samples that were created, I get this error with a shared library.

Inconsistency detected by ld.so: dl-version.c: 224: _dl_check_map_versions: Assertion `needed != ((void *)0)' failed! 

Can someone help me find out where the inconsistency comes from in the shared library?

Additional Information

The README file says

 GLV requires only OpenGL, GLU, and GLEW (Linux only). There are no other dependencies, unless a window binding is used, such as GLUT." 

When I installed GLEW from the source, it printed out a list of files that were installed.

 $ sudo make install install -d -m 0755 /usr/include/GL install -m 0644 include/GL/wglew.h /usr/include/GL/ install -m 0644 include/GL/glew.h /usr/include/GL/ install -m 0644 include/GL/glxew.h /usr/include/GL/ install -d -m 0755 /usr/lib64 install -m 0644 lib/libGLEW.so.1.8.0 /usr/lib64/ ln -sf libGLEW.so.1.8.0 /usr/lib64/libGLEW.so.1.8 ln -sf libGLEW.so.1.8.0 /usr/lib64/libGLEW.so install -m 0644 lib/libGLEW.a /usr/lib64/ install -d -m 0755 /usr/lib64 install -d -m 0755 /usr/lib64/pkgconfig install -m 0644 glew.pc /usr/lib64/pkgconfig/ 

I checked if glew package can be installed, but it looks like it is not there.

 $ aptitude search glew p glew-utils - OpenGL Extension Wrangler - utilities p glew-utils:i386 - OpenGL Extension Wrangler - utilities p libglew-dev - OpenGL Extension Wrangler - development environment p libglew-dev:i386 - OpenGL Extension Wrangler - development environment v libglew1.5-dev - v libglew1.5-dev:i386 - v libglew1.6-dev - v libglew1.6-dev:i386 - pi libglew1.8 - OpenGL Extension Wrangler - runtime environment p libglew1.8:i386 - OpenGL Extension Wrangler - runtime environment p libglewmx-dev - OpenGL Extension Wrangler MX - development environment p libglewmx-dev:i386 - OpenGL Extension Wrangler MX - development environment v libglewmx1.5-dev - v libglewmx1.5-dev:i386 - v libglewmx1.6-dev - v libglewmx1.6-dev:i386 - p libglewmx1.8 - OpenGL Extension Wrangler (Multiple Rendering Contexts) p libglewmx1.8:i386 - OpenGL Extension Wrangler (Multiple Rendering Contexts) 

I checked which GLU packages were installed, but everything looks fine here.

 $ aptitude search glu p celestia-glut - real-time visual space simulation (GLUT frontend) p celestia-glut:i386 - real-time visual space simulation (GLUT frontend) p cluster-glue - Reusable cluster components for Linux HA p cluster-glue:i386 - Reusable cluster components for Linux HA p cluster-glue-dev - Development files for the cluster glue components p cluster-glue-dev:i386 - Development files for the cluster glue components p freebsd-glue - Emulate a FreeBSD build environment i freeglut3 - OpenGL Utility Toolkit p freeglut3:i386 - OpenGL Utility Toolkit p freeglut3-dbg - OpenGL Utility Toolkit debugging information p freeglut3-dbg:i386 - OpenGL Utility Toolkit debugging information i freeglut3-dev - OpenGL Utility Toolkit development files p freeglut3-dev:i386 - OpenGL Utility Toolkit development files p gambas3-gb-opengl-glu - Gambas opengl-glu component p gambas3-gb-opengl-glu:i386 - Gambas opengl-glu component p gimp-gluas - Lua environment plug-in for GIMP p gimp-gluas:i386 - Lua environment plug-in for GIMP p glue-schema - LDAP schema files for the GLUE 1.3 and GLUE 2.0 Schema p glue-sprite - Simple command line tool to generate CSS sprites p glurp - GTK+ frontend to the Music Player Daemon (MPD) p glurp:i386 - GTK+ frontend to the Music Player Daemon (MPD) p glusterfs-client - clustered file-system (client package) p glusterfs-client:i386 - clustered file-system (client package) p glusterfs-common - GlusterFS common libraries and translator modules p glusterfs-common:i386 - GlusterFS common libraries and translator modules p glusterfs-dbg - GlusterFS debugging symbols p glusterfs-dbg:i386 - GlusterFS debugging symbols p glusterfs-examples - example files for the glusterfs server and client p glusterfs-server - clustered file-system (server package) p glusterfs-server:i386 - clustered file-system (server package) p libcluster-glue - Reusable cluster libraries (transitional package) p libcluster-glue-dev - Reusable cluster components for Linux HA (transitional package) p libghc-gluraw-dev - Raw binding for the OpenGL graphics system p libghc-gluraw-dev:i386 - Raw binding for the OpenGL graphics system v libghc-gluraw-dev-1.3.0.0-200bb:i386 - v libghc-gluraw-dev-1.3.0.0-9f9cf - p libghc-gluraw-doc - Raw binding for the OpenGL graphics system; documentation p libghc-gluraw-prof - Raw binding for the OpenGL graphics system; profiling libraries p libghc-gluraw-prof:i386 - Raw binding for the OpenGL graphics system; profiling libraries v libghc-gluraw-prof-1.3.0.0-200bb:i386 - v libghc-gluraw-prof-1.3.0.0-9f9cf - p libghc-glut-dev - Haskell GLUT binding for GHC p libghc-glut-dev:i386 - Haskell GLUT binding for GHC v libghc-glut-dev-2.4.0.0-233c0:i386 - v libghc-glut-dev-2.4.0.0-31a91 - p libghc-glut-doc - Haskell GLUT binding for GHC; documentation p libghc-glut-prof - Haskell GLUT binding for GHC; profiling libraries p libghc-glut-prof:i386 - Haskell GLUT binding for GHC; profiling libraries v libghc-glut-prof-2.4.0.0-233c0:i386 - v libghc-glut-prof-2.4.0.0-31a91 - v libglu-dev - v libglu-dev:i386 - v libglu1 - v libglu1:i386 - i libglu1-mesa - Mesa OpenGL utility library (GLU) i A libglu1-mesa:i386 - Mesa OpenGL utility library (GLU) i A libglu1-mesa-dev - Mesa OpenGL utility library -- development files p libglu1-mesa-dev:i386 - Mesa OpenGL utility library -- development files p libgluegen2-build-java - Tool to automatically generate the Java and JNI code. p libgluegen2-doc - Tool to automatically generate the Java and JNI code. p libgluegen2-jni - Tool to automatically generate the Java and JNI code. p libgluegen2-jni:i386 - Tool to automatically generate the Java and JNI code. p libgluegen2-rt-java - Tool to automatically generate the Java and JNI code. p libgssglue-dev - header files and docs for libgssglue p libgssglue-dev:i386 - header files and docs for libgssglue p libgssglue1 - mechanism-switch gssapi library p libgssglue1:i386 - mechanism-switch gssapi library v libhugs-glut - v libhugs-glut:i386 - p libhugs-glut-bundled - A binding for the OpenGL Utility Toolkit p libhugs-glut-bundled:i386 - A binding for the OpenGL Utility Toolkit p libkwinactiveglutils1abi3 - library used by accellaration for the KDE window manager Active p libkwinactiveglutils1abi3:i386 - library used by accellaration for the KDE window manager Active p libkwinglutils1abi3 - library with OpenGL utilities for the KDE window manager p libkwinglutils1abi3:i386 - library with OpenGL utilities for the KDE window manager p libmgl-glut5 - library for scientific graphs. (GLUT runtime library) p libmgl-glut5:i386 - library for scientific graphs. (GLUT runtime library) p libmodglue1 - C++ library for handling of multiple co-processes p libmodglue1:i386 - C++ library for handling of multiple co-processes p libmodglue1-dev - development files for a C++ library for handling of multiple co-processes p libnet-inet6glue-perl - glue module to make perl modules IPv6 ready p libnet-sslglue-perl - add/extend SSL support for common perl modules p libtaoframework-freeglut-cil-dev - Tao CLI binding for freeglut - development files p libtaoframework-freeglut2.4-cil - Tao CLI binding for freeglut p mgltools-mglutil - Molecular Graphics Laboratory utility collection i python-configglue - Glues together optparse.OptionParser and ConfigParser.ConfigParser p python-django-configglue - Django commands for working with configglue generated settings p python-gluon - High-level Python web development framework p python3-configglue - Glues together optparse.OptionParser and ConfigParser.ConfigParser v xlibmesa-glu-dev - v xlibmesa-glu-dev:i386 - 

Answer 1

Inconsistency detected by ld.so: dl-version.c: 224: _dl_check_map_versions: Assertion 'needed != ((void *)0)' failed!

Is this a bug in glibc or a corruption in one of your shared libraries. The glibc code reads:

  while (1) { ElfW(Vernaux) *aux; struct link_map *needed = find_needed (strtab + ent->vn_file, map); /* If NEEDED is NULL this means a dependency was not found and no stub entry was created. This should never happen. */ assert (needed != NULL); ... 

Your options at this point:

• reinstall and check md5sums for all involved libraries to eliminate damage to the disk, and
• install the debuginfo package for glibc and try to figure out which library and which version of the symbol triggers the statement, or
• report it to the appropriate error tracker for your Linux distribution.

Setting LD_DEBUG=symbols,bindings or even LD_DEBUG=all may also contain some hints about which symbols are being viewed.