hesiod lib problem

Richard Hally rhally at mindspring.com
Fri Apr 7 16:32:57 UTC 2006


Paul Howarth wrote:
> Richard Hally wrote:
>> for several days, ldconfig has been throwing the following errors:
>>
>>
>>   Updating  : subversion                   ##################### [ 
>> 19/106]
>> /sbin/ldconfig: /usr/lib/libhesiod.so.0 is not a symbolic link
>>
>>   Updating  : libstdc++-devel              ##################### [ 
>> 20/106]
>>   Updating  : libgnat                      ##################### [ 
>> 21/106]
>> /sbin/ldconfig: /usr/lib/libhesiod.so.0 is not a symbolic link
>>
>>   Updating  : libobjc                      ##################### [ 
>> 22/106]
>> /sbin/ldconfig: /usr/lib/libhesiod.so.0 is not a symbolic link
>>
>>   Updating  : xorg-x11-server-Xorg         ##################### [ 
>> 23/106]
>>   Updating  : metacity                     ##################### [ 
>> 24/106]
>> /sbin/ldconfig: /usr/lib/libhesiod.so.0 is not a symbolic link
>>
>>   Updating  : libgomp                      ##################### [ 
>> 25/106]
>> /sbin/ldconfig: /usr/lib/libhesiod.so.0 is not a symbolic link
>>
>>   Updating  : cpp                          ##################### [ 
>> 26/106]
>>   Updating  : gcc                          ##################### [ 
>> 27/106]
>>   Updating  : libgfortran                  ##################### [ 
>> 28/106]
>> /sbin/ldconfig: /usr/lib/libhesiod.so.0 is not a symbolic link
>>
>> The pertinent part of /usr/lib looks like this:
>>
>> [root at LinuxNew2 lib]# ll libhe*
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 16846 Mar 30 17:40 libhesiod.a
>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    18 Mar 31 10:03 libhesiod.so -> 
>> libhesiod.so.0.0.0
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 42747 Mar 30 17:40 libhesiod.so.0
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 40863 Mar 30 17:40 libhesiod.so.0.0.0
>> [root at LinuxNew2 lib]#
>>
>> How should this be fixed?
> 
> Hesiod appears to have moved to versioned sonames since FC5.
> Try moving libhesiod.so.0 out of the way and rerunning ldconfig.
> 
> Paul.
> 
Yup, that fixed it. Thanks!

Richard




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