/bin/sh: error while loading shared libraries: libtinfo.so.5

Antonio Olivares olivares14031 at yahoo.com
Sun Mar 15 15:15:40 UTC 2009





--- On Sun, 3/15/09, Ray Chen <chenrano2002 at 163.com> wrote:

> From: Ray Chen <chenrano2002 at 163.com>
> Subject: Re: /bin/sh: error while loading shared libraries: libtinfo.so.5
> To: "For testers of Fedora Core development releases" <fedora-test-list at redhat.com>
> Date: Sunday, March 15, 2009, 9:18 AM
> On Sat, 2009-03-14 at 22:00 -0500, Christopher D. Stover
> wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> > I tried doing a yum update that didn't go so well.
>  I'm now attempting to 
> > run yum from recovery via a fedora live cd but I'm
> getting the following: 
> > "/bin/sh: error while loading shared libraries:
> libtinfo.so.5: cannot open 
> > shared object file: No such file or directory". 
> Anyone have any ideas of 
> > what I can do to fix this?  Thanks!
> 
> it shows that system can't find the shared libraries
> "libtinfo.so.5".maybe your system has been
> damaged, specially for
> the /lib directory. you'd better boot the livecd from
> CDROM and
> reinstall the system.
That would be as a last resort.  

Why doesn't he do a 
# yum what provides libtinfo.so.5

Then look for the corresponding rpm and reinstall it either from a mirror or from koji.  If the system cannot be brought up within a few days, then surely I would do the same, reinstall the system what else can cure the illness? 
> 
> >From my Fedora10, the libtinfo is here:
> [ray at localhost /]$ ll /usr/lib/libtinfo.so 
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 2008-11-28 17:57
> /usr/lib/libtinfo.so
> -> ../../lib/libtinfo.so.5
> [ray at localhost /]$ ll /lib/libtinfo.so.5
> libtinfo.so.5    libtinfo.so.5.6  
> [ray at localhost /]$ ll /lib/libtinfo.so.5*
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    15 2008-11-28 17:56
> /lib/libtinfo.so.5 ->
> libtinfo.so.5.6
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 98036 2008-10-02 21:02
> /lib/libtinfo.so.5.6
> 
> Thanks,
> Ray
> 
> 
> -- 

Regards,

Antonio 


      




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