Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 97648
vim won't start, can't find libtinfo.so.5
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:54:53 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030529 Description of problem: I upgraded my system from 7.3 to RH 9, now vim will not work: [root@grok RPMS]# vim vim: error while loading shared libraries: libtinfo.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory [root@grok RPMS]# ldd /usr/bin/vim libncurses.so.5 => /usr/lib/libncurses.so.5 (0x40032000) libacl.so.1 => /lib/libacl.so.1 (0x40071000) libgpm.so.1 => /usr/lib/libgpm.so.1 (0x40077000) libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x4007e000) libperl.so => /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi/CORE/libperl.so (0x40082000) libutil.so.1 => /lib/libutil.so.1 (0x401aa000) libm.so.6 => /lib/i686/libm.so.6 (0x401ad000) libc.so.6 => /lib/i686/libc.so.6 (0x401cf000) libpthread.so.0 => /lib/i686/libpthread.so.0 (0x40307000) libattr.so.1 => /lib/libattr.so.1 (0x40358000) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000) libtinfo.so.5 => not found libnsl.so.1 => /lib/libnsl.so.1 (0x4035b000) libcrypt.so.1 => /lib/libcrypt.so.1 (0x40370000) [root@grok RPMS]# I can't seem to find any RPM that provides libtinfo, and wherever it exists, it should be a pre-req for the VIM rpm... Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): vim-common-6.1-29 How reproducible: Didn't try Steps to Reproduce: 1. Ran 7.3, keep it up to date, mostly 2. Upgraded to RH 9 3. libtinfo.so.5 was removed from my system and vim won't work. Additional info:
I checked the vim binaries from 7.3, the 7.3 errata version and the one from Red Hat Linux 9. None of them requires a libtinfo.so.5. Please add the output of the following commands to this bugreport: rpm -qa | grep vim rpm -qif /usr/bin/vim rpm -Vf /usr/bin/vim
[root@grok RPMS]# rpm -qa|grep vim vim-minimal-6.1-29 vim-common-6.1-29 vim-enhanced-6.1-29 [root@grok RPMS]# rpm -qif /usr/bin/vim Name : vim-enhanced Relocations: (not relocateable) Version : 6.1 Vendor: Red Hat, Inc. Release : 29 Build Date: Wed 12 Feb 2003 04:44:44 AM PST Install Date: Wed 18 Jun 2003 12:48:08 PM PDT Build Host: stripples.devel.redhat.com Group : Applications/Editors Source RPM: vim-6.1-29.src.rpm Size : 1896376 License: freeware Signature : DSA/SHA1, Sun 23 Feb 2003 10:05:37 PM PST, Key ID 219180cddb42a60e Packager : Red Hat, Inc. <http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla> Summary : A version of the VIM editor which includes recent enhancements. Description : VIM (Vi IMproved) is an updated and improved version of the vi editor. Vi was the first real screen-based editor for UNIX, and is still very popular. VIM improves on vi by adding new features: multiple windows, multi-level undo, block highlighting, and more. The vim-enhanced package contains a version of VIM with extra, recently introduced features like Python and Perl interpreters. Install the vim-enhanced package if you want to use a version of the VIM editor which includes recently added enhancements like interpreters for the Python and Perl scripting languages. You will also need to install the vim-common package. [root@grok RPMS]# [root@grok RPMS]# rpm -Vf /usr/bin/vim [root@grok RPMS]#
Also, I explicitly removed all the vim RPMs and re-installed them from the RH9 CDROM RPMs. I verified that the /usr/bin/vim executable went away when I removed everything...and it was back after installing the RPMS..so I don't think it was some crufty vim that somehow crawled onto my system... Just in case: [root@grok RPMS]# md5sum /usr/bin/vim 070fd8b623b374de74e445131245c978 /usr/bin/vim
It looks like you have installed a package which isn't from Red Hat and this breaks vim and probably quite a few more packages. One suspect would be ncurses, if you compile that one with some special options, you'll get libncurses and libtinfo. Try rpm -q --whatrequires libtinfo.so.5 to see which package needs this library.
[root@grok RPMS]# rpm -q --whatrequires libtinfo.so.5 gpm-libs-1.20.0-0.9 [root@grok RPMS]# Does this imply that gpm-libs is the thing that is screwing me up? How do I go about fixing this?