For those of you who enjoy the excitement of running dangerous commands:
Replace “.log” with the file extension you wish to remove
find . -type f -name "*.log" -exec rm -f {} \;Recently while installing letsencrypt I’ve come across yum being broken {by something @ somewhere} where yum tossed an error of libelf.so.1, a python shared object.
Where yum nor rpm was able to run.
So I ran ldconfig, which is a program used to maintain shared libraries. This from the man pages:
ldconfig checks the header and filenames of the libraries it encounters when determining which versions should have their links updated.
So I got on with it using the -v flag or verbose
ldconfig -v
Output:
ldconfig: /etc/ld.so.conf.d/kernel-2.6.32-573.18.1.el6.x86_64.conf:6: duplicate hwcap 1 nosegneg
ldconfig: /etc/ld.so.conf.d/kernel-2.6.32-573.22.1.el6.x86_64.conf:6: duplicate hwcap 1 nosegneg
ldconfig: /etc/ld.so.conf.d/kernel-2.6.32-573.26.1.el6.x86_64.conf:6: duplicate hwcap 1 nosegneg
ldconfig: /etc/ld.so.conf.d/kernel-2.6.32-573.7.1.el6.x86_64.conf:6: duplicate hwcap 1 nosegneg
ldconfig: /etc/ld.so.conf.d/kernel-2.6.32-573.8.1.el6.x86_64.conf:6: duplicate hwcap 1 nosegneg
ldconfig: /etc/ld.so.conf.d/kernel-2.6.32-642.1.1.el6.x86_64.conf:6: duplicate hwcap 1 nosegneg
/usr/lib64/mysql:
libmysqlclient.so.16 -> libmysqlclient.so.16.0.0
libmysqlclient_r.so.16 -> libmysqlclient_r.so.16.0.0
/usr/lib64/tcl8.5:
libTix.so -> libTix.so
/lib:
libbz2.so.1 -> libbz2.so.1.0.4
libSegFault.so -> libSegFault.so
libnsl.so.1 -> libnsl-2.12.so
libgssapi_krb5.so.2 -> libgssapi_krb5.so.2.2
libgmodule-2.0.so.0 -> libgmodule-2.0.so.0.2800.8
libkeyutils.so.1 -> libkeyutils.so.1.3
libncursesw.so.5 -> libncursesw.so.5.7
libfreeblpriv3.so -> libfreeblpriv3.so
libcrypt.so.1 -> libcrypt-2.12.so
libanl.so.1 -> libanl-2.12.so
libext2fs.so.2 -> libext2fs.so.2.4
libutil.so.1 -> libutil-2.12.so
libnss_nisplus.so.2 -> libnss_nisplus-2.12.so
libncurses.so.5 -> libncurses.so.5.7
libattr.so.1 -> libattr.so.1.1.0
libnss_hesiod.so.2 -> libnss_hesiod-2.12.so
libglib-2.0.so.0 -> libglib-2.0.so.0.2800.8
libz.so.1 -> libz.so.1.2.3
libselinux.so.1 -> libselinux.so.1
libkrb5.so.3 -> libkrb5.so.3.3
libdb-4.7.so -> libdb-4.7.so
libc.so.6 -> libc-2.12.so
libthread_db.so.1 -> libthread_db-1.0.so
libresolv.so.2 -> libresolv-2.12.so
libk5crypto.so.3 -> libk5crypto.so.3.1
libreadline.so.6 -> libreadline.so.6.0
And so many other shared libraries…
ldconfig in verbose mode will spit out shared libraries and links, re caching them.
Once this is complete I ran:
ldd /bin/rpm
Which from the lunux man:
Output:
linux-vdso.so.1 => (0x00007fffaaeba000)
librpmbuild.so.1 => /usr/lib64/librpmbuild.so.1 (0x00007fa244e32000)
librpm.so.1 => /usr/lib64/librpm.so.1 (0x00007fa244bc7000)
libmagic.so.1 => /usr/lib64/libmagic.so.1 (0x00007fa2449a7000)
librpmio.so.1 => /usr/lib64/librpmio.so.1 (0x00007fa244778000)
libselinux.so.1 => /lib64/libselinux.so.1 (0x00007fa244559000)
libcap.so.2 => /lib64/libcap.so.2 (0x00007fa244354000)
libacl.so.1 => /lib64/libacl.so.1 (0x00007fa24414c000)
libdb-4.7.so => /lib64/libdb-4.7.so (0x00007fa243dd8000)
libbz2.so.1 => /lib64/libbz2.so.1 (0x00007fa243bc6000)
liblzma.so.0 => /usr/lib64/liblzma.so.0 (0x00007fa2439a5000)
liblua-5.1.so => /usr/lib64/liblua-5.1.so (0x00007fa243778000)
libm.so.6 => /lib64/libm.so.6 (0x00007fa2434f3000)
libelf.so.1 => /usr/lib64/libelf.so.1 (0x00007fa2432dd000)
libnss3.so => /usr/lib64/libnss3.so (0x00007fa242f9d000)
libpopt.so.0 => /lib64/libpopt.so.0 (0x00007fa242d93000)
libz.so.1 => /lib64/libz.so.1 (0x00007fa242b7d000)
librt.so.1 => /lib64/librt.so.1 (0x00007fa242975000)
libpthread.so.0 => /lib64/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007fa242757000)
libc.so.6 => /lib64/libc.so.6 (0x00007fa2423c3000)
libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib64/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007fa2421ac000)
libdl.so.2 => /lib64/libdl.so.2 (0x00007fa241fa8000)
/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007fa24506c000)
libattr.so.1 => /lib64/libattr.so.1 (0x00007fa241da3000)
libnssutil3.so => /usr/lib64/libnssutil3.so (0x00007fa241b76000)
libplc4.so => /lib64/libplc4.so (0x00007fa241971000)
libplds4.so => /lib64/libplds4.so (0x00007fa24176d000)
libnspr4.so => /lib64/libnspr4.so (0x00007fa24152e000)
Boom, problem solved. Yum is functional again.
As note, I cannot blame this on certbot, considering this system has been beaten down as a dev / trial. break & fix whatever was the flavor of the day for the last 3++ years. So this is by far the first issue I’ve caused by intentionally wreaking havok on a system. Comes with the territory.