Hi,

Using suse9.3

When I run passwd I get:

server:/usr/lib # passwd
passwd: error while loading shared libraries: libldap-2.2.so.7: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

/usr/lib contains:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 283106 Aug 25 11:27 libldap.a
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 Nov 3 14:34 libldap.so -> libldap-2.2.so.7.0.16
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 309002 Aug 25 11:27 libldap_r.a
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 Nov 3 14:34 libldap_r.so -> libldap_r-2.2.so.7.0.16
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 Sep 27 18:07 libldapcpp.so.0 -> libldapcpp.so.0.0.3*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 295648 Mar 19 2005 libldapcpp.so.0.0.3*

I had to re-install Berkeley DB to get cyrus imapd server working (incompatible client library version), and I am wondering if that broke passwd (and possibly other core linux apps !?).

Recompiling 3rd party apps etc. is fine, but the core bits of linux itself ? hmmm... I haven't a clue how to start fixing this.. any pointers would be appreciated.

Thanks.
Jon

htpasswd (apache2 directory protection) was also broken, looking for berkeley 4.3.

Fixed this.

I should have just left the existing 4.3 berkely db install 'as is', as it is obviously required by other regular linux apps. Instead I removed it, and installed 4.4 to /usr/local. Which meant that apps using 4.4 worked fine (cyrus imapd etc.), but those using 4.3 failed to run any more.

I re-installed berkeley db 1.4.3 into the default location. in doing so, Yast threw up lots of dependencies re: ldap, which, after agreeing to 'solve' and install, all works perfectly now.

The moral to the tale: check your package dependencies in Yast before deleting stuff that you think is 'not needed'. But you knew that anyway, eh ? ;-)