difficult rpm problem

[Jack Wallen]

Hello everyone,

I'm not sure what I installed to cause this problem but anytime I try to
run rpm now I get this error:

rpm: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.6: cannot open
shared object file: No such file or directory

This is also keeping me from running OpenOffice and a few other apps.
I've try to find the solution with the help of my old friend google but
no luck. Obviously I can't fix it by upgrading or re-installing libstdc
++ via rpm because rpm won't work.

Does anyone have an idea how I can fix this problem?

Thank you so much.

jack

[Patrick Doyle]

On 1/2/07, jack wallen  wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I'm not sure what I installed to cause this problem but anytime I try to
> run rpm now I get this error:
>
> rpm: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.6: cannot open
> shared object file: No such file or directory
>
> This is also keeping me from running OpenOffice and a few other apps.
> I've try to find the solution with the help of my old friend google but
> no luck. Obviously I can't fix it by upgrading or re-installing libstdc
> ++ via rpm because rpm won't work.
>
> Does anyone have an idea how I can fix this problem?

Try looking in /usr/lib to see if you have libstdc++.  On my FC5 box,
I have libstdc++.so.6, which is a symbolic link to libstdc++.so.6.0.8,
which also exists in that directory.

If you have those (or some variant that looks reasonable), then you
might have a funny environment variable, such as LD_LIBRARY_PATH or
LD_PRELOAD, or something like that.

If you don't have the actual library, then you could ask somebody
(possibly somebody on this list, possibly even me :-) for a copy --
Not knowing what system you are running, I have no idea whether 6.0.8
would be compatible with what you've got, but it might be enough to
get you back to life.  If you're just missing the link, then go ahead
and recreate it.
> Thank you so much.
>
> jack

Don't thank me until/unless you find out that this helps :-)

--wpd

[Alan Cox]

> rpm: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.6: cannot open
> shared object file: No such file or directory

You've removed the C++ library.
> This is also keeping me from running OpenOffice and a few other apps.
> I've try to find the solution with the help of my old friend google but
> no luck. Obviously I can't fix it by upgrading or re-installing libstdc
> ++ via rpm because rpm won't work.
>
> Does anyone have an idea how I can fix this problem?

Copy the libstdc++.so.6 from a working box into the right place (/lib
or /usr/lib). Then use rpm to reinstall the package back over the file
you stuck there temporarily.

[Joe Smith]

jack wallen wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I'm not sure what I installed to cause this problem but anytime I try to
> run rpm now I get this error:
>
> rpm: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.6: cannot open
> shared object file: No such file or directory
> ...

You have a couple of good suggestions on fixing this; I'm more worried 
about how it happened. There's no way installing or upgrading something 
should have broken this (at least that I can think of). As long as some 
installed package, like oh, say rpm, requires this library, it should 
never be removed by rpm.

Even if you upgrade rpm itself, and the upgrade needs a new library, rpm 
is smart enough to know that the pre-requisites must be installed first, 
so you don't break the upgrade in the middle.

Linux is perfectly happy to have multiple library versions installed, so 
again. there's no reason this library should have been removed.

Did you delete something manually? Did you install or upgrade something 
using "nodeps" or "force"?

Good luck, this is a fun thing to resolve ;-)

<Joe

[Gilboa Davara]

On Tue, 2007-01-02 at 10:29 -0500, jack wallen wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I'm not sure what I installed to cause this problem but anytime I try to
> run rpm now I get this error:
>
> rpm: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.6: cannot open
> shared object file: No such file or directory
>
> This is also keeping me from running OpenOffice and a few other apps.
> I've try to find the solution with the help of my old friend google but
> no luck. Obviously I can't fix it by upgrading or re-installing libstdc
> ++ via rpm because rpm won't work.
>
> Does anyone have an idea how I can fix this problem?
>
> Thank you so much.
>
> jack

I'd suggest you reinstall libstdc and use the --force command line.

-However-, before you do.
1. What Fedora version are you using?
2. What arch are you using? (i386, x86_64)

- Gilboa

[Jack Wallen]

On Tue, 2007-01-02 at 19:50 +0200, Gilboa Davara wrote:
> I'd suggest you reinstall libstdc and use the --force command line.
>
> -However-, before you do.
> What Fedora version are you using?
> What arch are you using? (i386, x86_64)
> Gilboa

i'm using FC6 on i386.

i can't actually run rpm because i'm getting that error. i tried copying
a version of the file to /usr/lib but it was a version from Ubuntu.
obviously - won't work. i have to track down that file on an FC machine
i guess.

[Jack Wallen]

On Tue, 2007-01-02 at 13:03 -0500, jack wallen wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-01-02 at 19:50 +0200, Gilboa Davara wrote:
> > I'd suggest you reinstall libstdc and use the --force command line.
> >
> > -However-, before you do.
> > What Fedora version are you using?
> > What arch are you using? (i386, x86_64)
> > Gilboa
>
> i'm using FC6 on i386.
>
> i can't actually run rpm because i'm getting that error. i tried copying
> a version of the file to /usr/lib but it was a version from Ubuntu.
> obviously - won't work. i have to track down that file on an FC machine
> i guess.

fixed. my step daughter is running FC5 and her version worked just fine.
thanks for all the help!!!