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

[Andy Green]

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"

Relax you can fix it.  Try this for starters

cd /
wget
http://mirror.hiwaay.net/pub/fedora/linux/releases/7/Fedora/i386/os/Fedora/elfutils-libelf-0.127-1.fc7.i386.rpm
rpm2cpio elfutils-0.127-1.fc7.i386.rpm | cpio -i

-Andy