losing .so files

[Robin Laing]

Chris Torske wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am coming up with a problem that I have been running into more and 
> more often.  I am not sure if I am doing something wrong every time or 
> what, just don't understand.
> 
> The issue I am coming up with quite often, is that Linux starts to loose 
> shared librarys.  To be more specific, right away the system works 
> perfectly; knowing where all the shared librarys that is installed is. 
> Then slowly and progressively, starts complaining that it can't find a 
> random shared library.  It keeps on getting worse and worse, loosing the 
> location of more and more of them.  It isn't really loosing them in the 
> sense that they aren't on they system.  As like this time around for me, 
> yum is saying that it can't find "lib-org-apache-bcel-5.0.so".  I was 
> checking the web for a possible location where is it, and maybe 
> reinstall the package.  I say it is most times installed in the 
> /usr/lib/ directory.  Doing "ls /usr/lib/lib-org-apache-bc*" results 
> with "/usr/lib/lib-org-apache-bcel-5.0.so"; the exact file I am 
> supposedly missing.  From remembering that most times that directory is 
> automaticaly checked, when you run ldconfig.  After running that, yum 
> still complains I am missing that same file.  I have tried on other 
> times when this has happened, to copy that file around, to pretty much 
> every single folder I can find; and still doesn't releave the problem. 
> This problem is not has also been happening on me on other distro's too, 
> including other versions on kernels.  I have even got it go to the 
> point, where the system has even lost the a main rpm library.  I don't 
> remember that exact name off hand.  I just installed this copy just 
> about 5 days, so it hasn't been too long on this around.  I would really 
> like to keep this os for more then a month this time around.  Any ideas 
> on how to fix this?  I haven't checked the rpm database yet, I am 
> planning to check that tomorrow after work.
> 
> Chris T.
> 
> 

I had an issue with one lib file missing and it was due to a different 
repository (atrpms) missing the library in their version of the RPM. 
When I updated the rpm it removed the FC lib.

I have filed a bug report.

This is one issue of using different repositories.

I traced the problem by finding which package was to supply the 
missing lib and then comparing the package from atrpms and FC.

-- 
Robin Laing