error while loading shared libraries! (quick fix)

iplayfast

This scary message started popping up at me for no reason that I could see. The way I fixed it was to cd to the directory where the libraries are.
locate libraryname
(In mine it was one of the gcc libraries so I cd'd to
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.2.2
)
and then run ldconfig
The computer will buzz for a couple of seconds while it sorts itself out. Then things (for me anyways) started working.

Damasz · Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2003 10:18 am Post subject:

I had the same error message after my system crashed in the middle of a emerge -u world (hardware problem) I couldn't even start X anymore...

AFAIK you can run ldconfig from anywhere, you don't have to cd to a special directory. It will check /etc/ld.so.conf for the directories.

iplayfast · Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2003 1:50 pm Post subject:

I had picked up ldconfig deep in some thread, and they said to go to the directory so that's what I did, and it worked. But I did have my suspictions as to wether it was really necessary.

Thanks for the clarification.

quikchaos · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 29 Jan 2003 Posts: 107

Aye, just to confirm your findings.

I also ran into these errors. I think it was something I emerged. Perhaps an emerge -deep world a couple weeks ago. Running ldconfig from anywhere seemed to fix all the library file links.
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