Why is the following message printed "ERROR: ld.so: object '/lib/xxx.so.n' from /etc/ld.so.preload cannot be preloaded: ignored

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Issue

  • Why is the following message printed "ERROR: ld.so: object '/lib/xxx.so.n' from /etc/ld.so.preload cannot be preloaded: ignored ?

Example of a cat command

 cat /etc/ld.so.preload 
 ERROR: ld.so: object '/lib/libcwait.so' from /etc/ld.so.preload cannot be preloaded: ignored.
 /lib/libcwait.so
  • Another example
[fakeuser@fakehost~]# locate fakeroot
ERROR: ld.so: object 'libfakeroot-tcp.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored.
locate: no pattern to search for specified

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux

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