Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 63373
undefined symbol error in /lib/libnss_db.so.2
Last modified: 2008-05-01 11:38:02 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.0 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20020408 Description of problem: I'm getting undefined symbol: __set_errno in /lib/libnss_db.so.2 during shutdown, as well as during other operations, after update to nss_db-2.2-12 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Do nearly anything that causes a call to /lib/libnss_db.so.2 2.Error "/lib/libnss_db.so.2: undefined symbol: __set_errno" is displayed 3. Actual Results: Error is displayed Expected Results: No error is displayed an operation completes Additional info: I only noticed this start happening after updating using up2date on 04/12/02. The nss_db package wasn't updated during that session though, so far as I can tell. I was able to boot the cd, run linux rescue and delete the symlink to /lib/libnss_db.so.2.0.0. The link keeps getting re-created, and the error keeps returning. Removing the nss_db* packages eliminates the error, but I can't figure out what this will break as there don't seem to be any deps, but the package must be there for something, yes?
The nss_db package is mainly used to speed up nsswitch operations on hosts where the flat files in /etc are unusually large, and is never required for proper operation. You should be able to uninstall the package without difficulty. The breakage should be fixed in nss_db-2.2-14 and later (I missed one symbol when patching it to build with newer libc versions). Thanks!