ldd reports shared library missing, but library exists on disk

athv_gr · 05-12-2009, 12:27 PM

I have the following problem: In a SuSe machine the graphical environment suddenly stopped working.

I checked the /var/log/kdm.log and at its end it says:

/opt/kde3/bin/kdm_greet: error while loading shared libraries: libkdeui.so.4: cannot open shared object: No such file or directory

I run ldd /opt/kde3/bin/kdm_greet and I get that it cannot find:
libkdeui.so.4
libkdecore.so.4
libkdefx.so.4

They all are in the directory /opt/kde3/lib and /opt/kde3/lib64 and these directories are listed in /etc/ld.so.conf.

I also checked their permissions and they seem ok.

Anyone knows why they cannot be found even though they exist on disk?

Thanks

norobro · 05-12-2009, 03:03 PM

Edit: Please disregard. Upon rereading your post I see that you mention "/etc/ld.so.conf" I guess I have a reading comprehension problem.

Take a look at:

Code:

man ldconfig

You need to tell the linker where those libs are located.

Tinkster · 05-12-2009, 03:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by athv_gr

I have the following problem: In a SuSe machine the graphical environment suddenly stopped working.

I checked the /var/log/kdm.log and at its end it says:

/opt/kde3/bin/kdm_greet: error while loading shared libraries: libkdeui.so.4: cannot open shared object: No such file or directory

I run ldd /opt/kde3/bin/kdm_greet and I get that it cannot find:
libkdeui.so.4
libkdecore.so.4
libkdefx.so.4

They all are in the directory /opt/kde3/lib and /opt/kde3/lib64 and these directories are listed in /etc/ld.so.conf.

I also checked their permissions and they seem ok.

Anyone knows why they cannot be found even though they exist on disk?

Thanks

Can you post the output of

Code:

for i in kdeui kdecore kdefx
do
  ls -l /opt/kde3/lib/lib${i}.so.4
  file /opt/kde3/lib/lib${i}.so.4
  ls -l /opt/kde3/lib64/lib${i}.so.4
  file /opt/kde3/lib64/lib${i}.so.4
done

Cheers,
Tink

athv_gr · 05-13-2009, 12:34 AM

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Dec 15 2007 /opt/kde3/lib/libkdeui.so.4 -> libkdeui.so.4.2.0
/opt/kde3/lib/libkdeui.so.4: symbolic link to `libkdeui.so.4.2.0'
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Dec 15 2007 /opt/kde3/lib64/libkdeui.so.4 -> libkdeui.so.4.2.0
/opt/kde3/lib64/libkdeui.so.4: symbolic link to `libkdeui.so.4.2.0'
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 Dec 15 2007 /opt/kde3/lib/libkdecore.so.4 -> libkdecore.so.4.2.0
/opt/kde3/lib/libkdecore.so.4: symbolic link to `libkdecore.so.4.2.0'
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 Dec 15 2007 /opt/kde3/lib64/libkdecore.so.4 -> libkdecore.so.4.2.0
/opt/kde3/lib64/libkdecore.so.4: symbolic link to `libkdecore.so.4.2.0'
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Dec 15 2007 /opt/kde3/lib/libkdefx.so.4 -> libkdefx.so.4.2.0
/opt/kde3/lib/libkdefx.so.4: symbolic link to `libkdefx.so.4.2.0'
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Dec 15 2007 /opt/kde3/lib64/libkdefx.so.4 -> libkdefx.so.4.2.0
/opt/kde3/lib64/libkdefx.so.4: symbolic link to `libkdefx.so.4.2.0'

i92guboj · 05-13-2009, 01:04 AM

Did you use some kind of external repository or non-official packages or something like that?

Even if the libraries are there that doesn't mean that kdm_greet can link to them. That can happen for example if they have been compiled against different versions of a base library (for example if those libs and kdm_greet were compiled against different versions of qt). Another cause could be that the libraries are corrupt, had been compiled for another architectures...

For the rest I know nothing about SuSE these days so I can't give any more concrete idea.

athv_gr · 05-13-2009, 02:05 AM

To the best of my knowledge no one that uses this machine has done any updates or installed something. The libraries were installed during the first setup of the machine and I don't think that they have changed since, so probable they are not corrupt.

Tinkster · 05-13-2009, 02:17 AM

ok, so they're just symlinks ...

Can you repeat the above and replace the .4 in the snippet
with a .4.2.0 ?

athv_gr · 05-13-2009, 12:31 PM

Ok, it seems that running ldconfig did the job. The system is back to normal. I don't understand why the database had become corrupt.
Anyway, thanks for your replies.