Re: tlug: Re: libwcsmbs

[Jerome Limozin <jlz@example.com>]

"Eric S. Standlee" wrote:

> I installed a libwcsmbs package off the linux.or.jp ftp server and it
> killed my system.  On boot it (init?) would lock up saying something
> about an undefined variable related to libwcsmbs.  This may portray my
> lack of experience in the shared library portion of linux, but as many
> times as I tried to use the rescue disk to go in and remove the libwcsmbs
> files from /lib, /usr/lib, and some X11R6/lib directory, it popped up
> again and I ended up reinstalling RH6.0
>
> I am baffoozled.  Any help?
>
> Eric
>

Hi Eric,

Seems too late, but I've got same problem as you some time ago, trying to
'japanize' my redhat 6.0 installation, and I could recover without reinstalling
everything.

I installed libwcsmbs package, and -guess what- my system would boot any more.
Hopefully, I had a rescue disk, so I could go around my system, and I finally
found that the file /etc/ld.so.conf mentioned the library libwcsmbs.so.0 (I
don't remember path), among others.
As far as I understand, the system tried to load this library before running any
command. Since it is incompatible with new glibc, I couldn't run anything.
So, the cure was :
    - boot with rescue disk
    - in /etc/ld.so.conf, remove the line with libwcsmbs
    - sync, reboot normally
    - remove the package.... rpm -e libwcsmbs


Jerome


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