Cannot open shared object file errors preventing boot up

[Rick Stevens]

Graeme Nichols wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-08-12 at 02:40, Rick Stevens wrote:
> 
> <snip>
> 
>>>Hello Rick, please see my reply to Bob. X started up OK today but there
>>>is still the original problem similar to this one: 'error while loading
>>>shared libraries: libqt-mt.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such
>>>file or directory'. Any clues? Doesn't appear to be a permission
>>>problem, but what the problem is I have no idea. Sound familiar :-)
>>
>>It runs OK as root but not as a mortal user?  That smacks of permissions
>>problems.  The library should be in /usr/lib/qt-3.1/lib (may be a
>>different version, but you get the idea).  Make sure that all files in
>>that directory and the directory itself has at least world read/execute
>>permissions:
>>
>>	# cd /usr/lib
>>	# chmod -R o+rw qt-3.1
> 
> 
> No. Doesn't run as either root of my mortal self. I ran the chmod
> command above just to make sure. The are several versions of qt on my
> system, viz.
> 
> [graeme at barney lib]$ ls qt*
> qt2:
> bin  doc  include  lib
>  
> qt-2.3.1:
> bin  doc  include  lib
>  
> qt-3.0.5:
> bin  etc  lib  plugins
>  
> qt-3.3:
> bin  etc      lib      phrasebooks  templates
> doc  include  mkspecs  plugins      translations
> [graeme at barney lib]$
> 
> I ran the chmod command on all of them. As you can see, lib-mt.so.3 is a
> symbolic link to a later version.
> 
> [graeme at barney lib]$ ls -la libqt-mt.so.3
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 17 Jul 14 17:06 libqt-mt.so.3 ->
> libqt-mt.so.3.3.2
> [graeme at barney lib]$
> 
> The problem appears to be only associated with KDE applications, e.g.,
> quanta, Korganizer, Kmail etc. and always the same library. I have
> re-installed a heap of RPMs, including all the KDE related RPMs but
> nothing seems to fix the problem.
> 
> Do you have any further ideas. I don't really want to re-install FC2 if
> I can possibly avoid it. Also, can you recommend a simple backup utility
> that can follow symlinks, hardlinks and make a COMPLETE backup of
> particular directories. Flexbackup is almost useless, particularly as
> the man page is in error and restoring files won't work for me. tar
> fails because it complains of the backup being too large and bombs out.
> Mirrordir wont follow hard links, although the idea is great. cp is OK
> except it won't follow hard links either. Pumps out a lot of errors to
> that effect, particularly in /usr.
> 
> TIA,
> 
> ps. sorry about the delay in getting back to you, but I haven't had a
> lot of time and I've only just got the system back up enough to connect
> to the internet.

Uh, can you do an "ldconfig -v" and see which one of the qt libaries are
being used?
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