tlug: Re: libwcsmbs

[Marcus Metzler <mocm@example.com>]

Eric S. Standlee writes:
 > 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 had the same problem. I found a solution (after about an hour of
trying). In my system (Suse 6.2) it seems that mmv is statically
linked, so I could move the file /etc/ldso.preload and the libs in
/lib, after that everything worked again. A good thing that I didn't reboot.

Marcus

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