Methodology or Philosophy of Troubleshooting

Sun, 5 Aug 2001 22:54:38 -0700

Just for giggles... try /sbin/ldconfig as root.  Sometimes library
authors fail to run this to update library info, or sometimes people
su to root and don't get /sbin in their path, thus resulting in not
being able to run the tool when they run rpm.

On Sun, Aug 05, 2001 at 09:44:36PM -0800, Eric Van Buskirk wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am trying to develop a bag of tricks here.  Because now I must admit that
> when I get anything other than a networking problem (I am not a coder), I am
> frozen; a deer in the headlights.  So I would like to ask whether anyone has
> some general thoughts on how to tackle a Linux problem; whether anyone has
> some heurisms or general methodolgies or truths that they would like to
> share.  So perhaps I could explain the problem, and someone could explain
> the thought process of how to solve it?
> 
> I loaded RH 7.1 on my laptop (again).  Linuxconf was somehow not installed,
> so I installed it via rpm ("rpm -ih linuxfonf-1.24r2-10.i386.rpm").  But rpm
> would not install it because it failed a dependency: it first wanted "gd."
> So I installed gd-2.0.1-1.i386.rpm.  Then I typed "linuxconf" and the
> following error message was displayed: ""linuxconf: error while loading
> shared libraries: libgd.so.1.8: cannot load shared object file: No such file
> or directory".
> 
> Not knowing what the hell that meant, I loaded libgd-1.3-4.i386.rpm which
> seemingly had not been loaded during the original install.  Still, however,
> I receive the same error message when I type "linuxconf."
> 
> So I thought maybe I should look at the source code (is that how problems
> like this are solved)??? But I am not sure which file to look at.  I don't
> even know how to look at linuxconf , as I don't know where it is ("find
> / -name linuxconf*" did not turn it up).
> 
> So could someone tell me how to tackle this.  What is the
> methodology???????????????????????????????/
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Eric
> 
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