Re: libcrypt1: symlink points to libpthread

[shichimohedron <shichimohedron@protonmail.com>]

>Can you please try to call /usr/sbin/ldconfig.old to check if the wrong
link is recreated? That's needed to confirm if ldconfig is the culprit
here.
>Can you confirm it's libpthread.so.1 and not libpthread.so.0? If so can
you please tell how did you install that file?

Here is a shell log, literally

~# ls -l /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ | grep libcrypt
-rw-r--r--  1 root root    266262 Apr 18 20:46 libcrypt.a
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root        35 Apr 18 20:46 libcrypt.so -> /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcrypt.so.1
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root        17 Apr 18 20:46 libcrypt.so.1 -> libcrypt.so.1.1.0
-rw-r--r--  1 root root    202680 Apr 18 20:46 libcrypt.so.1.1.0
~# /usr/sbin/ldconfig.old
~# ls -l /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ | grep libcrypt
-rw-r--r--  1 root root    266262 Apr 18 20:46 libcrypt.a
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root        35 Apr 18 20:46 libcrypt.so -> /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcrypt.so.1
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root        15 Sep 30 07:53 libcrypt.so.1 -> libpthread.so.1
-rw-r--r--  1 root root    202680 Apr 18 20:46 libcrypt.so.1.1.0

I struggle to reveal the origins of libpthread.so.1. It can easily be a result of unqualified experimentation, but not necessarily. Of course, if this is the case its presence in the system is completely my fault and not in any sense yours. Anyway, dpkg -S doesn't match it with any of packages currently installed, and another attempts to guess where the library comes from didn't lead to any answer.