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Re: VMWare does not start after update to libc6-i386?



Hi folks,

Corey Hickey wrote:
> Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> 
>>
>> I have the same versions and the same links in /lib/ldconfig on my
>> system and everything works without anything in ld.so.conf. It doesn't
>> make sense for ldconfig to fail completly on some systems.
>>
>> Please file a bug report about this with libc6. Maybe the maintainers
>> have more insight.
> 
> 
> This is happening to me, too. Not with VMWare, specifically, but
> ldconfig isn't seeing the symlinks in /lib/ldconfig. If I add the
> directory lines back to /etc/ld.so.conf it works fine.
> 
> Did anybody file a bug? I looked but the list of open bugs for libc6 is
> huge. If nobody has filed a bug yet, then I will.
> 

AFAICS searching /lib/ldconfig for symbolic links is not
documented, at least not on the manpage for ldconfig. Maybe
thats on purpose, and we rely upon a feature that is not
completed yet?


Regards

Harri

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