Rawhide 20041204 destroys vital system symlinks

[Dave Mack]

Brian Gerst wrote:

> Dave Mack wrote:
>
>> I yum updated against my rsynced rawhide tree this morning and 
>> rebooted. The result was an unusable system. Many of the shared 
>> library symlinks in /lib and /usr/lib are gone. I would advise 
>> against updating your rawhide machines until the rpms responsible for 
>> this damage are taken out and shot.
>>
>> If you're already toast, booting from the rescue cd will allow you to 
>> get into /mnt/sysimage/lib and create the symlink to libtermcap.so.2 
>> that bash needs to run. After that, it's a matter of going in and 
>> fixing the missing symlinks when things break, which is often.
>>
>
> Does running ldconfig restore the missing links?
>
> -- 
>                 Brian Gerst
>
Yes, that worked! Way cool! In your face, Solaris ldconfig!

Thanks very much for the clue.

Dave