[rhn-users] Error after update

[Todd Warner]

On Thu, 18 Mar 2004, Brando Tan wrote:

> Good day ppl :)
> 
> I've ran up2date earlier on to update several packages. During the
> update process, there was some kinda error and up2date did not manage
> to finish updating. I believe the error occurred while it was updating
> the httpd package. However, it didn't occur to me to save the error
> till now :( When i tried to run up2date again, this is what I got:
> 
> admin at home [~]# up2date
> up2date: error while loading shared libraries: libSM.so.6: cannot open
> shared object file: No such file or directory
> 
> Could anyone tell me what's going on? Or how do i go about fixing this? It's giving me quite a headache. Would really appreciate any help.
> 
> Thanks & regards,
> Brando

Sounds like something broke during installation of the package itself.
up2date will stick that package in /var/spool/up2date prior to
installation so the actual RPM should be OK. But let's try to have the
non-X version of up2date install it:
up2date XFree86-libs

If that fails, look for the XFree86-libs RPM in that directory. Then do
this to ensure the package is OK (NOTE: version may be different
dependent on what RHEL version you are running):
rpm -Vp /var/spool/up2date/XFree86-libs-4.3.0-55.EL.i386.rpm
rpm -K /var/spool/up2date/XFree86-libs-4.3.0-55.EL.i386.rpm

If everything looks hunky-dory you can attempt to install it manually:
rpm -Uvh /var/spool/up2date/XFree86-libs-4.3.0-55.EL.i386.rpm

If the RPM is not there, you can manually download it, and any other RPM
you need from the website. Ensure you choose the appropriate RPM for
your distro version!

NOTE: if "already" installed, you can do a --force, but I will not
officially endorse that at this time. :) If there are dependency issues,
I would try to resolve those first.

Keep us posted.

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