Bug 505082

Summary:	upgrade from F10 to F11 leaves unresolved library reference, login fails
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	John Dennis <jdennis>
Component:	glibc	Assignee:	Andreas Schwab <schwab>
Status:	CLOSED INSUFFICIENT_DATA	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	11	CC:	drepper, jakub, pertusus, rmaximo, schwab, vanmeeuwen+fedora
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Description John Dennis 2009-06-10 15:40:41 UTC

After upgrading an F10 installation to F11 I was unable to login due to an unresolved library. The login process emits the following loader error:

lib/ld_linux.so.2 not found, required by /lib/libc.so.6

boot into single user mode and running ldconfig resolved the problem. Not sure who is responsible for not running ldconfig, the package owning the library or the installer after all packages were upgraded.

Comment 1 Chris Lumens 2009-06-10 15:43:57 UTC

ldconfig is usually run out of the package's post-install scriptlet.

Comment 2 John Dennis 2009-06-10 15:52:08 UTC

both /lib/lid-linux.so.2 and /lib/libc.so.6 are owned by glibc, reassigning component.

Comment 3 Ulrich Drepper 2009-11-23 02:38:02 UTC

(In reply to comment #0)
> After upgrading an F10 installation to F11 I was unable to login due to an
> unresolved library. The login process emits the following loader error:
> 
> lib/ld_linux.so.2 not found, required by /lib/libc.so.6

This cannot have been the real message.  There is at least one typo it in, likely two.  Was there an initial / or not?  And ld_linux must have been ld-linux.


> boot into single user mode and running ldconfig resolved the problem. Not sure
> who is responsible for not running ldconfig, the package owning the library or
> the installer after all packages were upgraded.  

The only possibility I see is that during the glibc installation ldconfig failed to run.  Some problem in the post-install code or so.  But there haven't been any other reports.  Perhaps your system wasn't clean.  And the /lib/ld-linux.so.2 links better be there since otherwise apps won't start at all (or is this a 64-bit machine).

Anyway, this is not a problem with the code, at most with the installation.  Nobody has been able to reproduce it so I close it.  If there is a reproducer, reopen.