rpm: error while loading shared libraries: libelf.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

[Ed Greshko]

Excalibur Xcalibur wrote:
> Hi,
>      I accidentally messed up my system while updating with yum: There
> was a  power trip when yum was updating my box and I ended up with
> conflicting elfutils. Now when I try fixing the problem, I wiped out
> elfutils and I realized it's linked to ALL rpm commands.
> 
> "rpm: error while loading shared libraries: libelf.so.1: cannot open
> shared object file: No such file or directory"
> 
> So basically I can't use any rpm commands or yum to install, delete or
> update anything ! I tried downloading elfutils-0.128.tar.gz and going
> through a "./configure, make, make install" but I ended with
> 
> In file included from linux-kernel-modules.c:63:
> /usr/include/fts.h:41:3: error: #error "< fts.h> cannot be used with
> -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS==64"
> make[2]: *** [linux-kernel-modules.o] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory
> `/home/excalibur/rpmbuild/BUILD/elfutils-0.128/libdwfl'
> make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/excalibur/rpmbuild/BUILD/elfutils-0.128'
> make: *** [all] Error 2
> 
> 
> In a nutshell, I'm pretty screwed and I need help. :( Any suggestions on
> how to fix this problem?

Do you have rpm2cpio on your system?  If you do you can download the
elfutils rpm and use rpm2cpio in conjunction with cpio to extract what you
need and put the files where they are needed.