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Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Libraries Hiding After Ubuntu Upgrade

  • Subject: Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Libraries Hiding After Ubuntu Upgrade
  • From: Dave Edwards <dle [ at ] sympatico [ dot ] ca>
  • Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 20:40:50 -0400
Thanks for the replies, Brenda and Woogie.

* Brenda J. Butler [2007-05-06T20:06-0400]:
> 
> On Sun, May 06, 2007 at 09:45:17PM +0100, Woogie wrote:
> > Check the contents of $LD_LIBRARY_PATH - it's a "considered harmful"
> 
> Clearly, your shell-under-sshd is not finding your loadable
> libraries.  

$ echo $LD_LIBRARY_PATH
/home/dle/.local/lib

I think that must be set by autopackage, but I don't know where.
Unsetting it does not help.  And as Brenda implies, it should not
really matter.

> One way to fix it is to explicitly set LD_LIBRARY_PATH.

Explicitly setting it to /lib:/usr/lib doesn't help.

> But, I think LD_LIBRARY_PATH is meant for libs in weird
> locations, so there must be another way to configure where the
> system loadable libraries are.  I wish I knew what it was ...
> 
> Or, maybe it's an sshd config item having to do with libraries.

That wouldn't explain the terminals, though.

> Or PAM.

Doesn't seem to be, judging from a scan through /etc/pam.d/ .

> A quick grep through my /etc (caveat:  I'm running Debian,
> not ubuntu) for '/lib' shows up sestatus.conf as a possibility
> for your problem (although this may be way off base, I know
> nothing about selinux).

No selinux here, except for /lib/libselinux.so.1, part of the
libselinux1 package.

Wah,
Dave.
-- 
Dave Edwards <dle @ sympatico.ca>
Freelance and Technical Writer,
With Special Interest in Open Source Software
http://bigStory.homelinux.org

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