Re: I broke apache and hacked a fix, but what happened and how do I fix it properly?

[Glen Mehn <glen@burningman.com>]

Ivan Uemlianin wrote:

> which worked, though it tediously prompted me to insert the CD for each 
> package.

erk-- I'm usually using the 'net for these things... the perils of 
readily available broadband...

> Anyway the upshot was:
> debian:~# ls -l /lib/libdb*
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root       233488 Apr 18  2002 /lib/libdb.so.3
> lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           15 Feb 14 21:00 /lib/libdb2.so.2 
> -> libdb2.so.2.7.7
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root       262812 Apr 18  2002 
> /lib/libdb2.so.2.7.7
> debian:~# apache
> apache: error while loading shared libraries: libdb.so.2: cannot open 
> shared object file: No such file or directory
>
> so it's back to:
>
> debian:/lib# ln -s libdb.so.3 libdb.so.2
> debian:/lib# apache
> [Fri Feb 14 21:10:34 2003] [alert] apache: Could not determine the 
> server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.0.1 for ServerName

dpkg has probably overwritten your httpd.conf file here. Not sure why 
the reload didn't create the needed symlinks...

-g


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