Command "XX" fails with "XX: error while loading shared libraries: <library-version>.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory" error.

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Issue

  • Shell commands are failing with the following types of errors: 
  # ps 
  ps: error while loading shared libraries: libproc-3.2.3.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
  • rpm commands also fail with the following error:
 # rpm -q procps  
 rpm: error while loading shared libraries: librpm-4.3.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory  
 # rpm -V procps  
 rpm: error while loading shared libraries: librpm-4.3.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4

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