prelink does nothing

Karsten from Berlin · Posted: Fri Sep 30, 2005 8:08 am Post subject: prelink does nothing

Hi folks.

I installed my Winchester box again in a clean, fresh & shiny manner. Yesterday I wanted to prelink my box, but after typing "prelink -afmR"... nothing happened and half a second later I got the prompt back. No error-message, no nothing.

I know that during the last days of my old system (before re-installing) I had the same problem, but I thought for myself "that's exactly why to re-install again" :-)

. So it seems not to be a problem of a borked install.

I searched the forums and read a thread about some looping symlinks that could cause the problem. Before looking for hours my filesystem, maybe s.o. has already found out what's wrong on AMD64.
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Gnufsh · Guru Joined: 28 Dec 2002 Posts: 400 Location: Portland, OR

I had the same problem a few weeks ago, and it was symlinks. Basically every lib64 directory on my system (eg /usr/lib64, /lib64, etc) had a symlink that pointed to lib64 (eg /usr/lib64/lib64 -> lib64), which makes prelink keep following it. Try looking at this thread:
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-372790-highlight-.html

Karsten from Berlin · Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2005 5:17 pm Post subject:

Yep, thanks. Can confirm this. I also found this sym-(link-)loops in every of my lib64-directories [/lib64, /usr/lib64, /usr/local/lib64] and deleted them.

Nevertheless... thanks. Prelink works again.
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Heaven: The police are British, the chefs Italian, the mechanics German, the lovers French and it's organized by the Swiss.
Hell: The police are German, the chefs British, the mechanics French, the lovers Swiss and it's organized by the Italians.