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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