Prelink logs "Cannot safely convert .rel.dyn' section from REL to RELA" message in prelink.log.

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Prelink running via cron every day outputs the following messages to /var/log/prelink/prelink.log:
   /usr/sbin/prelink: /usr/lib/xulrunner/libxul.so: Cannot safely convert .rel.dyn' section from REL to RELA
   /usr/sbin/prelink: Could not prelink /usr/lib/xulrunner/libxpcom.so because its dependency /usr/lib/xulrunner/libxul.so could not be prelinked
   /usr/sbin/prelink: Could not prelink /usr/lib/xulrunner/plugin-container because its dependency /usr/lib/xulrunner/libxpcom.so could not be prelinked

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  • prelink-0.4.6-3.el6.i686

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