Cannot open shared object file errors preventing boot up

[Graeme Nichols]

On Tue, 2004-08-17 at 02:15, Rick Stevens wrote:
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> > 
> > 
> > No. Doesn't run as either root of my mortal self. I ran the chmod
> > command above just to make sure. The are several versions of qt on my
> > system, viz.
> > 
> > [graeme at barney lib]$ ls qt*
> > qt2:
> > bin  doc  include  lib
> >  
> > qt-2.3.1:
> > bin  doc  include  lib
> >  
> > qt-3.0.5:
> > bin  etc  lib  plugins
> >  
> > qt-3.3:
> > bin  etc      lib      phrasebooks  templates
> > doc  include  mkspecs  plugins      translations
> > [graeme at barney lib]$
> > 
> > I ran the chmod command on all of them. As you can see, lib-mt.so.3 is a
> > symbolic link to a later version.
> > 
> > [graeme at barney lib]$ ls -la libqt-mt.so.3
> > lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 17 Jul 14 17:06 libqt-mt.so.3 ->
> > libqt-mt.so.3.3.2
> > [graeme at barney lib]$
> > 
> > The problem appears to be only associated with KDE applications, e.g.,
> > quanta, Korganizer, Kmail etc. and always the same library. I have
> > re-installed a heap of RPMs, including all the KDE related RPMs but
> > nothing seems to fix the problem.
> > 
> > Do you have any further ideas. I don't really want to re-install FC2 if
> > I can possibly avoid it. Also, can you recommend a simple backup utility
> > that can follow symlinks, hardlinks and make a COMPLETE backup of
> > particular directories. Flexbackup is almost useless, particularly as
> > the man page is in error and restoring files won't work for me. tar
> > fails because it complains of the backup being too large and bombs out.
> > Mirrordir wont follow hard links, although the idea is great. cp is OK
> > except it won't follow hard links either. Pumps out a lot of errors to
> > that effect, particularly in /usr.
> > 
> > TIA,
> > 
> > ps. sorry about the delay in getting back to you, but I haven't had a
> > lot of time and I've only just got the system back up enough to connect
> > to the internet.
> 
> Uh, can you do an "ldconfig -v" and see which one of the qt libaries are
> being used?

Hi Rick,

> [graeme at barney graeme]$ sudo /sbin/ldconfig -v | grep qt
/usr/lib/qt-3.3/lib:
        libqt-mt.so.3 -> libqt-mt.so.3.3.2

Would it be wise to delete the other versions of qt? or a sure-fire way
of screwing things up?


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