Failed to load sound files

[Nexus6]

I had the same problem. It compiled up fine but then there was no sound in game.

As it turned out, I had two versions of libopenal.so.0 installed - an older snapshot in /usr/local/lib and the current Ubuntu package in /usr/lib. Looking at the libraries that are linked to the vdrift executable, I realised it was pulling the /usr/local/lib version in and it probably should be using /usr/lib instead.

Invoking vdrift with the /usr/lib/libopenal.so.0 library preloaded worked fine - i.e.

LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libopenal.so.0 /usr/share/games/vdrift/bin/vdrift

I wonder whether having two sets of OpenAL development headers confused the SConstruct script.