OBS Studio: Failed to start recording

[cnaak]

I’m having a problem with OBS after the update:

Log file includes the following: (errors only)

13:44:03.262: Failed to load 'en-US' text for module: 'decklink-ouput-ui.so'
13:44:03.263: os_dlopen(/usr//lib/obs-plugins/frontend-tools.so->/usr//lib/obs-plugins/frontend-tools.so): libpython3.8.so.1.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
[...]
13:44:03.291: os_dlopen(/usr//lib/obs-plugins/obs-outputs.so->/usr//lib/obs-plugins/obs-outputs.so): libmbedtls.so.12: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
[...]
13:44:03.292: os_dlopen(/usr//lib/obs-plugins/obs-x264.so->/usr//lib/obs-plugins/obs-x264.so): libx264.so.160: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
[...]
13:44:03.295: os_dlopen(../obs-plugins/obs-browser->../obs-plugins/obs-browser.so): ../obs-plugins/obs-browser.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

It seems that OBS is lagging behind the upgrade, since it is expecting python-3.8 to be installed, while the upgrade switches to python 3.9…

How does one go about fixing this / providing missing files/packages? (Or properly bringing OBS up to date?)

[Yochanan]

@cnaak

It seems that OBS is lagging behind the upgrade

Nope, it’s something on your system. obs-studio was rebuilt for Python 3.9 last November and has had updates and rebuilds for other shared libraries since.

You are using the community repo package, right?

[cnaak]

You are right, the OBS install in question was actually an old one from AUR, and I forgot about it. Did a simple uninstall (the AUR one) and installed OBS afresh from the official repos. Now it’s working back again. Thank you!