ldconfig problem after upgrade 4.11 to 5.5

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Tue Aug 21 23:31:11 PDT 2007


On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 06:51:18AM +0200, Martin Schweizer wrote:
> Hello Kris
> 
> Am Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 12:37:25AM -0400 Kris Kennaway schrieb:
> > On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 06:22:46AM +0200, Martin Schweizer wrote:
> > > After I updated my 4.11 to an 5.5 system (following /usr/src/UPDATING), I get 
> > > around 63 error messages while the system boot up:
> > > 
> > > ldconfig: /var/run/ld.so.hints: No such file or directory
> > >           search: trailing characters ignored
> > >           No such file or directory
> > >         0: - lmalloc.1.1: trailing characters ignored. No such file or 
> > > directory
> > > ...
> > > ...
> > > 
> > Looks like it might be a broken symlink.
> > 
> > Why are you updating to 5.5 though?  You should be using 6.2.
> 
> If I'm understanding /usr/src/UPDATING correct I should first update to 5.5 
> and then to 6.2?

OK.  It may have been easier (and still could be) to just do a binary
upgrade instead.

> Any ideas where I can check this symlink?

Use find(1) to look for libmalloc.so.1.1

Kris


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