Re: Shared Lib Error on RHEL AS 4u2 with Oracle's compat-libcwait

Hi Tony

Have you checked that /etc/ld.so.conf contains a reference to /lib/libcwait.so

and then run ldconfig ?

Rgds
Steve

At 4:38 AM +1100 9/1/06, Tony Jambu wrote:
>Hi Linux gurus
>
>I have encountered a shared library error after installing Oracle's
>Linux package
>compat-libcwait-2.1-1.i386.rpm.
>
>Platform: Intel EM64T
>O/S: Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES (v. 4 u2 for Intel EM64T)
>Oracle: 10gR2
>
>After installing compat-libcwait-2.1-1.i386.rpm, every linux command
>comes up with
>
>ERROR: ld.so: object '/lib/libcwait.so' from /etc/ld.so.preload
>cannot be preloaded: ignored
>
>I have applied patch 4198954 which contains the new/patched
>compat-libcwait package.
>It is placing the library in the right directory.
>
>
>
>The following information might help
>% cat /etc/ld.so.preload
>/lib/libcwait.so
>
>% ls -l /usr/lib/libcwait.so /lib/libcwait.so
>ls: /usr/lib/libcwait.so: No such file or directory
>-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2784 Nov 3 12:13 /lib/libcwait.so
>
>So the right library is in the right location and /etc/ld.so.preload
>points to the right file.
>
>Everything performs ok but I keep getting this error. Someone
>reported that they
>had problem rebooting and I am too scared to try that for now.
>
>Any suggestions? Maybe John Smiley or Werner Puschitz might shed
>some light.
>Their articles probably saved me days of trouble shooting missing packages
>but it does not touch on this problem.
>
>ta
>tony
>
>
>
>
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