Mercury-messenger is an msn program that runs off of java. It worked fine this morning and before that, however there was a large set of updates to Debian: Testing yesterday and when I closed the program and try to restart, it no longer works.

This is the output I get in terminal:

mercury
nawk: error while loading shared libraries: libm.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
dirname: error while loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
/bin/ls: error while loading shared libraries: librt.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
basename: error while loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
dirname: error while loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
basename: error while loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
grep: error while loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/bin/java: error while loading shared libraries: libpthread.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory


Any ideas?
Thanks!

It is quite clear: some libraries needed by your programs are not there. It only appear when you try to start the programs, if they were running during the upgrade you won't have noticed.

I would do a dist-upgrade and see what happens. I assume the programs you mention are debian installed programs, right? If not, you have to recompile and install them.

jlinkels

debian:/home/war1025# locate libc.so.6
/lib64/libc.so.6
/lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
/lib/libc.so.6

Au contraire.

All libraries are present and accounted for.

Then I have no idea, but locate gives what is in the files database, there is no guarantee that the files are really there unless you did and updatedb.

jlinkels

I posted it on the program's forum and someone suggested an alternate startup file that is included, that one works fine.

I still don't understand that though...