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

John

You know what? You could be right. But i swear that I saw a pop up pre check that said I needed it. In any case I have removed it and done a few installations and all seems to be OK. Lets hope that I was mistaken in the 1st place.

Thanks for your help

ta
tony

At 07:54 AM 9/01/2006, John Smiley wrote:
>First off, you don't need this patch to run 10gR2 under RHEL4 U2 (32 or 64-bit).
>
>The other potential trouble is that I don't see an x86-64 version of this patch on \
MetaLink, so you most likely have the 32-bit version. Since you're running U2 for Intel \ EM64T, you should not expect 32-bit libraries to work correctly on a 64-bit OS. I \ recommend you uninstall this package before proceeding.
>
>Hope this helps.
>
>John Smiley
>
>On 1/8/06, Steve Farmer wrote:
>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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