ldconfig errors (and possibly other errors)

[kcyanks1]

I have Fedora Core 4 and things were working fine. Then I decided to
try to download and install Corel WordPerfect 8.0. The website I was
using mentioned I needed various libraries
(http://www.tldp.org/FAQ/WordPerfect-...ml#DOWNLOADURL
at sec. 4.2). After typing in the "ldconfig -v | grep ..." statements
as instructed, I concluded that I was missing the libc.so.5, libm.so.5,
and ld-linux.so.1 files, so I did a web search and found and installed
rpms that would give me these ... and seemed to cause a lot of trouble
in the process.

Now when I boot up, I get a couple errors:
(1) an error regarding /usr/bin/rhgb & libICE6
(2) a "fatal error" when "inserting" "acpi_cpu"

Then it goes to a textual login rather than a graphical login. If I
type "startx", there is an error loading libX11.so.6. When I did "yum
update" hoping it might fix the problems, and when I run /sbin/ldconfig,
I have a series of warnings:

(1) libc.so - not DLL or ESF library
(2) libpthread.so not DLL or ESF library
(3) include (no file)
(4) ld.so.conf.d/*.conf (no file)

My /etc/ld.so.conf file has the following lines:

include ld.so.conf.d/*.conf
/usr/X11R6/lib
/usr/lib/qt-3.3/lib
/usr/lib/wine

(It probably goes without saying at this point that I am not able to
load the graphical login.)

I probably haven't done a great job describing all these mistakes, and I
greatly appreciate any suggestions that anyone may have on how to fix my
problems. Thanks ahead of time for any help.

[multescugeorge@]

The rpm's you downloaded and installed were the correct ones?
If you have a 32 bit processor and you downloaded+installed a x64 package, well, it's not good.
Did you try to erase/deactivate the /usr/X11R5/lib and /usr/lib/qt-3.3/lib entry in /etc/ld.so.conf?
If that fails, then you can try this:
rpm -qa | grep some-letters_from the packages_you_installed
rpm -e what_the_above_command_gives_and_what_you_remember _you_installed
yum install what_you_just_uninstalled_without_any_numbers_in_i t
This in the hope that the troubble is from a bad rpm that you installed. the yum command should install the correct packages. And this doesn't require a graphical interface.

[kcyanks1]

Originally Posted by multescugeorge@

The rpm's you downloaded and installed were the correct ones?
If you have a 32 bit processor and you downloaded+installed a x64 package, well, it's not good.
Did you try to erase/deactivate the /usr/X11R5/lib and /usr/lib/qt-3.3/lib entry in /etc/ld.so.conf?
If that fails, then you can try this:
rpm -qa | grep some-letters_from the packages_you_installed
rpm -e what_the_above_command_gives_and_what_you_remember _you_installed
yum install what_you_just_uninstalled_without_any_numbers_in_i t
This in the hope that the troubble is from a bad rpm that you installed. the yum command should install the correct packages. And this doesn't require a graphical interface.

Thanks for the reply. I will give your suggestions a shot. I did install the right ones for my processor, I think. I tried doing some things with "yum -list installed" and "rpm -q" to figure out which I installed and delete them, but it wasn't showing up - perhaps I wasn't typing it correctly, and using "grep" which I hadn't thought of can help that.

I did not try changing my /etc/ld.so.conf file in anyway. I knew that file might be relevant based on some info I found on the web, but wasn't sure in what ways I might edit it.

If I just installed the rpms without reinstalling them (i.e., I did the "rpm -e" but not the "yum install" step), would my system be returned to what it was before I tried to install anything? Or would I possibly have overwrote other packages that were installed beforehand? I did not get any warnings about overwriting newer packages when I was doing the rpm installs. In case it makes a difference, I installed the rpms by clicking on the links through my browser and opening them with the system package installer.

I'll post back after I play around more. Thanks.

[kcyanks1]

Originally Posted by multescugeorge@

The rpm's you downloaded and installed were the correct ones?
If you have a 32 bit processor and you downloaded+installed a x64 package, well, it's not good.
Did you try to erase/deactivate the /usr/X11R5/lib and /usr/lib/qt-3.3/lib entry in /etc/ld.so.conf?
If that fails, then you can try this:
rpm -qa | grep some-letters_from the packages_you_installed
rpm -e what_the_above_command_gives_and_what_you_remember _you_installed
yum install what_you_just_uninstalled_without_any_numbers_in_i t
This in the hope that the troubble is from a bad rpm that you installed. the yum command should install the correct packages. And this doesn't require a graphical interface.

I first tried to erase the two lines from the /etc/ld.so.conf file, and then I re-ran /sbin/ldconfig, and still got errors, so I put the original file back (should I have done that?)

Afterwards I used "rpm -qa" as you suggested, and found the libc5.i386 0:5.4.38-3 library I installed. When I tried removing it using "rpm -e", I got an error "can't create transaction lock on /var/lib/rpm__db.000". I was able to delete it using yum though. At that point I still had similar errors:

When I ran /sbin/ldconfig, I got errors
(1) can't open include (no file or directory)
(2) ld.so.conf.d/*.conf (no file or directory)
(3) /usr/lib/lpthread (not DLL or ELF library)
(4) /usr/lib/libc.so (not DLL or ELF library)

The last error seems especially weird (to my informed self) since I just removed the libc5 library. (it is gone according to the "rpm -qa" line). The file /usr/lib/libc.so does exist, though, so perhaps it was unrelated to libc5.

When I try to "startx", I get an error regrading libX11.so.6.

When I do "rpm -qa | grep X11" the only rpm that shows up begins "vim", which I figure is related to the vim text editor, and nothing that I did recently that caused these problems.

I do think I installed 1 (maybe 2) other rpms aside from the libc5. I had thought I separately installed a libm5 rpm, but when I did "rpm -qa | grep libm" nothing showed up. I also installed some library that gave me ld-linux.so, but I couldn't find that using "rpm -qa" either. I'll have to do some web searching hoping I can find the pages I found before where I got the rpms that I installed. Unfortunately while my bookmarks copy over between my Linux and WinXP partitions (using the WinXP one now, obviously), my web history does not.

Update: I discoverd the "rpm -qa --last" command, and I tried to use that to find the rpms that I installed -- but I couldn't find any of them in there, except, perhaps, if "ld.so.1.xxxx" (where the xxxx is the # - I should have written it down but didn't. I think it began 1.4). Is it possible that this was something that did not come default and that I added in effort to get "ld-linux.so.1" which the WordPerfect FAQ said I needed?

Thanks!

[multescugeorge@]

Ok, this is what you do:
give the commands:
mkdir /etc/ld.so.conf.d
cat > /etc/ld.so.conf.d/qt-i386.conf
/usr/lib/qt-3.3/lib
now press ctrl+c
cat > /etc/ld.so.conf.d/ xorg-x11-i386.conf
/usr/X11R6/lib
now press ctrl+c
ldconfig
startx
see what happens.
(This is what i have on my computer, it will not help if the packages/libraries are corrupt)
I think your problems come from: /usr/lib/libc.so (not DLL or ELF library) , *not ELF library* this is a problem.

[multescugeorge@]

libc.so and libpthread.so are in the package from: http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat....i386.rpm.html
install it by: rpm -ivh --force glibc-devel*
there is another package that has them, if the package above doesn't work:
http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat....i386.rpm.html

[kcyanks1]

Thanks. I do already have an /etc./ld.so.conf.d directory which includes qt-i386.conf and xorg-x11-i386.conf with the contents that you said to add. I will try installing the rpm you suggested in your next post.

[kcyanks1]

I tried installing the package you suggested and still had the same problems. What I don't understand is why even though my /etc/ld.so.conf.d directory and *.conf files within that directory exist, /sbin/ldconfig fails to realize it. My original ld.so.conf file said "include ld.so.conf.d/*.conf" and I changed it to "include /etc/ld.so.conf.d/*.conf" to no avail.

I'm going to try installing the "libX11.so.6" rpm, because it seems like that has some files that have been causing errors. I'll update with what happens. Thanks for the help.

Update: I tried installing new libX11.so.6 and nothing changed. I also did a "yum update" out of desperation, and it did not help. At a couple points during the update it spit out the same errors that I get when I try to run /sbin/ldconfig.

[kcyanks1]

Just to update for anyone having the same problem who finds this thread, I wasn't able to solve it based on the info I was able to find, so I reinstalled. I talked to someone who's a Linux expert and he said that would probably be the easiest route, and that by installing the libc5 libraries I destroyed my installation. So hopefully no one ends up in this situation! Thankfully, everything's working great now.