Rawhide 20041204 destroys vital system symlinks
Brian Gerst
bgerst at didntduck.org
Sun Dec 5 17:36:43 UTC 2004
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
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