gnuCash in F8

[tinti]

Hi,

I have a problem starting gnucash on my F8 box, tried already compiling the package myself, but with the same result.

Error message when launching gnucash:
gnucash-bin: error while loading shared libraries: /usr/lib/libc.so.6: invalid ELF header

Error message when launching gnucash-bin:
gnucash-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libgnc-qof.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

find /usr/lib -name *libc.so* returns:
/usr/lib/libc.so
/usr/lib/libc.so.6

find /usr/lib -name *gnc-qof* returns:
/usr/lib/gnucash/libgnc-qof.so.1.0.4
/usr/lib/gnucash/libgnc-qof.so
/usr/lib/gnucash/libgnc-qof.so.1

tried also the F9 rpms from the development tree including updating goffice and some other libs, but still the same error message as shown above.

Did someone got the same issue with gnucash?

Cheers,
tinti

[brunson]

It works fine for me, how did you install gnucash and its dependencies? Yum?

My installation does not have a libgnc-qof.* at all, it doesn't exist on my drive anywhere and yum doesn't find a package that provides it. Do you have any idea where that library came from? If you install everything via RPM you can try "rpm -qf /usr/lib/gnucash/libgnc-qof.so.1.0.4".

[tinti]

rpm -qf /usr/lib/gnucash/libgnc-qof.so.1.0.4
gnucash-2.2.3-2.fc9

ok, I will remove the F9 packages an try again with the F8 RPMS.

Thanks

[glennzo]

For what it's worth it's been working fine for me also. Fedora 7 and 8. Installed via yum.

[tinti]

Nope, with F8 RPMS still the same error:

gnucash
gnucash-bin: error while loading shared libraries: /usr/lib/libc.so.6: invalid ELF header

Can somebody explain why gnucash reports errors about invalid ELF header on libc? Shouldn't there be other programs reporting this error too?

[bbfuller]

Hello tinti

No consolation to you I'm sure, but I also use Gnucash on Fedora 8 from the usual repositories with no noticable problems or error messages.

I suspect that you have altered something in one of the basic Fedora libraries when you tried to compile Gnucash from source or when you installed the F9 rpms.

Neither are particularly advisable options.

[tinti]

Hi, there should have been something altered before doing anything like compiling or installing the F9 RPMS.
I've made an installation from the F8 repos on my office machine and it works perfectly, can someone please check if you have a file /usr/lib/libc.so.6 as I don't have it on my office PC, but gnucash is working.

[bbfuller]

Hello tinti

No, I don't have a file:

/usr/lib/libc.so.6

on my up to date F8 installation.

I do have a couple of symlinks though in '/lib' and '/lib/i686/nosegneg' of that name pointing to '/lib/libc-2.7.so'

[glennzo]

Hey tinti. I have that file on my Fedora 8 system but it's not in /usr/lib

[glenn@toshiba ~]$ locate libc.so.6
/lib/libc.so.6
/lib/i686/nosegneg/libc.so.6

Edit: Actually I guess it's a link to libc-2.7.so.

[glenn@toshiba nosegneg]$ ls -la
total 2148
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root    4096 2008-01-19 10:53 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root    4096 2008-01-19 10:53 ..
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1701336 2007-10-18 04:48 libc-2.7.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      11 2008-01-19 10:53 libc.so.6 -> libc-2.7.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  208308 2007-10-18 04:48 libm-2.7.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      11 2008-01-19 10:53 libm.so.6 -> libm-2.7.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  129472 2007-10-18 04:48 libpthread-2.7.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      17 2008-01-19 10:53 libpthread.so.0 -> libpthread-2.7.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   46024 2007-10-18 04:48 librt-2.7.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      12 2008-01-19 10:53 librt.so.1 -> librt-2.7.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   33716 2007-10-18 04:48 libthread_db-1.0.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      19 2008-01-19 10:53 libthread_db.so.1 -> libthread_db-1.0.so

[tinti]

I will try adopting my symlinks as yours tonight and see if it works for me, maybe gnucash just reports an error caused by the existing symlink /usr/lib/libc.so.6

Many thanks for your help.

[tinti]

Yes, by removing the symbolic link /usr/lib/libc.so.6 my gnucash is starting

Thanks for your help!