A sample of them: /etc/cron.daily/prelink: /usr/sbin/prelink: /usr/bin/swais: Could not parse `/usr/bin/swais: error while loading shared libraries: libncurses.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory' /usr/sbin/prelink: /usr/bin/vmnet-natd: Could not parse `Incorrectly built binary which accesses errno or h_errno directly. Needs to be fixed.' /usr/sbin/prelink: /usr/bin/xspread: Could not parse `Incorrectly built binary which accesses errno or h_errno directly. Needs to be fixed.' /usr/sbin/prelink: /usr/bin/vmware-wizard: Could not parse `Incorrectly built binary which accesses errno or h_errno directly. Needs to be fixed.' /usr/sbin/prelink: /usr/X11R6/bin/xtrojka: Could not parse `Incorrectly built binary which accesses errno or h_errno directly. Needs to be fixed.' /usr/sbin/prelink: /usr/lib/openoffice/program/pkgchk.bin: Could not parse `/usr/lib/openoffice/program/pkgchk.bin: error while loading shared libraries: libsal.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory' /usr/sbin/prelink: /usr/lib/mozilla-1.4/mozilla-bin: Could not parse `/usr/lib/mozilla-1.4/mozilla-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libmozjs.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory' /usr/sbin/prelink: /usr/lib/mozilla-1.4/regchrome: Could not parse `/usr/lib/mozilla-1.4/regchrome: error while loading shared libraries: libxpcom.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory' /usr/sbin/prelink: /usr/lib/mozilla- 1.2.1/plugins/java2/bin/i386/green_threads/javac: Could not parse `/usr/lib/mozilla-1.2.1/plugins/java2/bin/i386/green_threads/javac: error while loading shared libraries: libhpi.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory' /usr/sbin/prelink: /usr/lib/mozilla- 1.2.1/plugins/java2/bin/i386/green_threads/javah: Could not parse `/usr/lib/mozilla-1.2.1/plugins/java2/bin/i386/green_threads/javah: error while loading shared libraries: libhpi.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory'
This is nothing fatal, prelink simply reporting why it couldn't prelink certain programs. You have some borken software installed (some vmware utilities from what I can see), dunno if you can run swais at all if libncurses.so.4 is missing. Then, openoffice/mozilla errors are because they use LD_LIBRARY_PATH to run some programs. prelink doesn't know what LD_LIBRARY_PATH it should use, so cannot prelink them. I've fixed most of the openoffice binaries last year, so that they use DT_RPATH, but missed one. You can file a bug against openoffice and/or mozilla if you want. JDK apparently has similar problem. The LD_LIBRARY_PATH issue can be solved by adding --ld-library-path /path1:/path2 to prelink arguments if you want (e.g. in /etc/sysconfig/prelink). I don't see any problems with prelink itself in your log though.
I must disagree with your claim that there is no prelink bug here. The problems you described in such detail are common and are likely to pop up again and again forever. Most of the software generating these errors is from standard Red Hat RPMs, and prelink simply shouldn't be sending E-mail to the admin every single night bitching about problems in standard software. IMHO, the nightly automatic prelink should simply discard these errors. You should add a command-line option to prelink telling it to be quiet about errors of this sort, if there isn't already such an option, and use that option in the daily automatic invocation of prelink.
You haven't mentioned about getting this via mail. That was certainly not intended, I just forgot to add 2>&1 in a two places. Building prelink-0.3.0-4.