Re: [PLUG] what could be broken?

["eric@lucii.org" <eric@lucii.org>]

On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 12:55:41PM -0500, Stephen Gran wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 12:21:15PM -0500, eric@lucii.org said:
> > Anybody have any idea about how to fix this?
> > 
> > I've recently noticed a strange behavior from my SuSE 9.1 system when I 
> > call on the pager, /usr/bin/less.
> > 
> > Example:
> >   [eric]$ less fetchmail/fetchmail.archive.001.gz 
> >   file: error while loading shared libraries: libmagic.so.1: cannot open 
> >   shared object file: No such file or directory
> 
> The linker (ld.so) cannot find libmagic.so.1, a shared library that less
> needs to load at startup.
> 
> `ldd /usr/bin/less` will confirm both that libmagic.so.1 is referenced and
> not found.  My guess is that Suse's dependency tracking is suboptimal - it
> should not have allowed you to get in this situation in the first place.
> However, I am fairly sure they should have shared library versions of
> libmagic available.

When I run the ldd command I get this:

[eric]$ ldd -v /usr/bin/less
        linux-gate.so.1 =>  (0xffffe000)
        libncurses.so.5 => /lib/libncurses.so.5 (0x40037000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib/tls/libc.so.6 (0x4007c000)
        /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000)

        Version information:
        /usr/bin/less:
                libc.so.6 (GLIBC_2.2) => /lib/tls/libc.so.6
                libc.so.6 (GLIBC_2.1) => /lib/tls/libc.so.6
                libc.so.6 (GLIBC_2.3) => /lib/tls/libc.so.6
                libc.so.6 (GLIBC_2.0) => /lib/tls/libc.so.6
                libc.so.6 (GLIBC_2.3.4) => /lib/tls/libc.so.6
        /lib/libncurses.so.5:
                libc.so.6 (GLIBC_2.3) => /lib/tls/libc.so.6
                libc.so.6 (GLIBC_2.1.3) => /lib/tls/libc.so.6
                libc.so.6 (GLIBC_2.1) => /lib/tls/libc.so.6
                libc.so.6 (GLIBC_2.0) => /lib/tls/libc.so.6
        /lib/tls/libc.so.6:
                ld-linux.so.2 (GLIBC_2.1) => /lib/ld-linux.so.2
                ld-linux.so.2 (GLIBC_2.3) => /lib/ld-linux.so.2
                ld-linux.so.2 (GLIBC_2.0) => /lib/ld-linux.so.2
                ld-linux.so.2 (GLIBC_PRIVATE) => /lib/ld-linux.so.2

No libmagic asked for!  Very strange :-P
 
> On rereading this, it may also be possible that you are just missing a
> symlink:
> 
> steve@gashuffer:~$ ll /usr/lib/libmagic.so.1
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 17 2004-12-06 18:39 /usr/lib/libmagic.so.1 -> libmagic.so.1.0.0
> 
> Do you have a libmagic.so.1.0.0 ?  If so, just (in the same directory)
> link it as above.

I cannot find a libmagic.so.* anywhere on the system.
My good friend, rpmfind.net, located one (libmagic-4.07-1.i686.rpm)
which I installed without trouble.  I believe it's a problem with the 
compilation of /usr/bin/less.  In either case, it's working now.
 
> > I do find libmagic.a and libmagic.la files but no libmagic.so.1 file.
> 
> These are for static linking at build time, and information for the
> linker, respectively.  They are not shared libraries.
> 
> HTH,
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Helped immensely!

Thanks!

Eric
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