#prelink# semi-disaster

[Jim Cornette]

Michal Jaegermann wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 25, 2005 at 10:08:28PM -0500, Jim Cornette wrote:
> 
>>Deleting all of the #prelink#<random> from /tmp left one obviously 
>>broken symlink to /usr/lib/libGL.so.1
> 
> 
> If in such moment you will rerun 'ldconfig' then all correct links
> should be created.  Indeed, this is not precisely obvious.
> 
>    Michal
> 

Would I run this against the entire /usr/lib directory or just against 
the particular library where the problem was encountered?

locate '#prelink#' presently returns no transitional libraries. At the 
time the problem was encountered, there were about 5 returned libraries 
that returned results. Most of the returned outputs were sound related 
libraries which are not part of Fedora Core.


Having a systemwide warning where shutdown would not happen until the 
system was in sane state is still a desirable action. prelink and 
package updating interrupted on shutdown seem to be dangerous actions to 
interrupt whie they are in mid-stream condition. Ideally, they would 
exit cleanly and save data like in a hybernation state and pick up when 
the system beacme powered up again.
I favor the complete action, then shut down while preventing additional 
programs from launching during the shutdown request. Laptops would 
probably benifit from the complete critical, then hybernate concept.

In the meantime, running top before shutting down the system is probably 
wise to ensure at least a critical application or daemon is not 
performing tasks at the time of shutdown.

Jim


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