Re: Rawhide 20041204 destroys vital system symlinks
Brian Gerst wrote:
Dave Mack wrote:
> I yum updated against my rsynced rawhide tree this morning and
> rebooted. The result was an unusable system. Many of the shared
> library symlinks in /lib and /usr/lib are gone. I would advise
> against updating your rawhide machines until the rpms responsible for
> this damage are taken out and shot.
>
> If you're already toast, booting from the rescue cd will allow you to
> get into /mnt/sysimage/lib and create the symlink to libtermcap.so.2
> that bash needs to run. After that, it's a matter of going in and
> fixing the missing symlinks when things break, which is often.
>
Does running ldconfig restore the missing links?
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Brian Gerst
Yes, that worked! Way cool! In your face, Solaris ldconfig!
Thanks very much for the clue.
Dave