#prelink# semi-disaster

[Jim Cornette]

Trying to launch ppracer, I ended up having a permission error. When 
investigating the library which I was having permission errors with, I 
found out that the library was linked to a #prelink#<random-number> file.
Deleting all of the #prelink#<random> from /tmp left one obviously 
broken symlink to /usr/lib/libGL.so.1

Anyway, is there an option to any option to find broken symlinks 
system-wide.

Most importantly, for programs that can break the sanity of the system 
if you are shutting down the computer, are there any mechanisms being 
developed to prevent system shutdown until processes such as prelink, 
updating system in the background are not in a sane condition.

To fix the above problem, I deleted the database entries for the library 
that had the broken dep and all associated rpms. I then yum installed 
the same packages that were db entry only removed.

Jim


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