On 01/03/2019 12:53 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote:
Thank you for your helpful comment. Unfortunately. I am an Organioc Chemist, not an IT person. Therefore, I am only a user.On Thu, Jan 03, 2019 at 12:49:48PM -0500, Stephen P. Molnar wrote:root@AbNormal:/home/comp# ldconfig ldconfig: Writing of cache data failed: No such file or directoryYou NEED to figure out why this is happening. Is the entire /etc directory gone, or something? Show some basic initiative. Look around. Show us what abnormal things are going on with your system. ls -ld / /etc /etc/ld.* strace /sbin/ldconfig Do something, do ANYTHING useful!
Now, strace is not installed, nor can I install it, thanks to the error messages.
Might this help? root@AbNormal:/home/comp# ls -ld / /etc /etc/ld.* drwxr-xr-x 26 root root 4096 Dec 19 13:17 / drwxr-xr-x 134 root root 12288 Jan 3 09:43 /etc -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 237114 Dec 26 14:47 /etc/ld.so.cache -rw------- 1 root root 12288 Jan 3 12:49 /etc/ld.so.cache~ -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 34 Apr 9 2017 /etc/ld.so.conf drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 22 07:41 /etc/ld.so.conf.d -- Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D. Consultant www.molecular-modeling.net (614)312-7528 (c) Skype: smolnar1