fun with RedHat

Jose D Castillo jcastill@lurch.purplefeet.net
Mon, 25 Dec 2000 02:30:36 -0700 (MST)


you may not want to hear this, but in my opinion upgrading and OS,
regardless of the vendor, is not a good thing. Save yourself some
headaches and backup the data you need and then just install the new OS
version from scratch. Then take 2 aspirin and call the PLUG in the
morning.

Live long and prosper.

On Sat, 23 Dec 2000, Craig White wrote:

> Didn't expect Redhat upgrade to be so difficult but when upgrading from 6.1
> to 7.0 - apparently their binaries are significantly different...most
> notably apparent is kerberos - or so I believe.
> 
> try to start lpd and get:  (worked fine before upgrade)
>  lpd: error while loading shared libraries: libkrb5.so.3: cannot open shared
> object file: No such file or directory
> 
> check mail with mail client from another computer (worked fine before
> upgrade)
>  Server response: ipop3d: error while loading shared libraries:
> libgssapi_krb5.so.2: cannont open shared object file: No such file or
> directory
> 
> try to start checkpc and get: (don't know if it worked before upgrade)
>  checkpc: error while loading shared libraries: libkrb5.so.3: cannot open
> shared object file: No such file or directory
> 
> try to start samba and get: (worked fine before upgrade)
>  smbd: error while loading shared libraries: libdes425.so.3: cannot open
> shared object file: No such file or directory
> 
> have installed the following updates & bug fixes...
> LPR/cpp/emacs/fetchmail/gcc/glibc/libstdc/modutils/nscd/openssh/pam/usermode
> /xinetd
> 
> indeed have the kerberos libraries installed in /usr/kerberos and have in
> desperation created symbolic links in /usr/lib
> 
> sensing that this can be one of those opportunities to learn, I would be
> most grateful for anyone who can add to my meager knowledge base.
> 
> Craig
> 
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