On Friday 28 May 2004 22:35, Chris Torske wrote: >Hello, > >I am coming up with a problem that I have been running into more and >more often. I am not sure if I am doing something wrong every time > or what, just don't understand. > >The issue I am coming up with quite often, is that Linux starts to > loose shared librarys. To be more specific, right away the system > works perfectly; knowing where all the shared librarys that is > installed is. Then slowly and progressively, starts complaining > that it can't find a random shared library. It keeps on getting > worse and worse, loosing the location of more and more of them. It > isn't really loosing them in the sense that they aren't on they > system. As like this time around for me, yum is saying that it > can't find "lib-org-apache-bcel-5.0.so". I was checking the web > for a possible location where is it, and maybe reinstall the > package. I say it is most times installed in the /usr/lib/ > directory. Doing "ls /usr/lib/lib-org-apache-bc*" results with > "/usr/lib/lib-org-apache-bcel-5.0.so"; the exact file I am > supposedly missing. From remembering that most times that > directory is automaticaly checked, when you run ldconfig. After > running that, yum still complains I am missing that same file. I > have tried on other times when this has happened, to copy that file > around, to pretty much every single folder I can find; and still > doesn't releave the problem. This problem is not has also been > happening on me on other distro's too, including other versions on > kernels. I have even got it go to the point, where the system has > even lost the a main rpm library. I don't remember that exact name > off hand. I just installed this copy just about 5 days, so it > hasn't been too long on this around. I would really like to keep > this os for more then a month this time around. Any ideas on how > to fix this? I haven't checked the rpm database yet, I am planning > to check that tomorrow after work. > I believe my next step would be to let memtest86 run for a day or so. >Chris T. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.23% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attorneys please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2004 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.