John You know what? You could be right. But i swear that I saw a pop up pre check that said I needed it. In any case I have removed it and done a few installations and all seems to be OK. Lets hope that I was mistaken in the 1st place. Thanks for your help ta tony At 07:54 AM 9/01/2006, John Smiley wrote: >First off, you don't need this patch to run 10gR2 under RHEL4 U2 (32 or >64-bit). > >The other potential trouble is that I don't see an x86-64 version of this >patch on MetaLink, so you most likely have the 32-bit version. Since you're >running U2 for Intel EM64T, you should not expect 32-bit libraries to work >correctly on a 64-bit OS. I recommend you uninstall this package before >proceeding. > >Hope this helps. > >John Smiley > >On 1/8/06, Steve Farmer <<mailto:hts@xxxxxxxxxx>hts@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >Hi Tony > >Have you checked that /etc/ld.so.conf contains a reference to /lib/libcwait.so > >and then run ldconfig ? > >Rgds >Steve > >At 4:38 AM +1100 9/1/06, Tony Jambu wrote: >>Hi Linux gurus >> >>I have encountered a shared library error after installing Oracle's >>Linux package >>compat-libcwait-2.1-1.i386.rpm. >> >>Platform: Intel EM64T >>O/S: Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES (v. 4 u2 for Intel EM64T) >>Oracle: 10gR2 >> >>After installing compat-libcwait-2.1-1.i386.rpm, every linux command >>comes up with >> >>ERROR: ld.so: object '/lib/libcwait.so' from /etc/ld.so.preload >>cannot be preloaded: ignored >> >>I have applied patch 4198954 which contains the new/patched >>compat-libcwait package. >>It is placing the library in the right directory. >> >> >> >>The following information might help >>% cat /etc/ld.so.preload >>/lib/libcwait.so >> >>% ls -l /usr/lib/libcwait.so /lib/libcwait.so >>ls: /usr/lib/libcwait.so: No such file or directory >>-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2784 Nov 3 12:13 /lib/libcwait.so >> >>So the right library is in the right location and /etc/ld.so.preload >>points to the right file. >> >>Everything performs ok but I keep getting this error. Someone >>reported that they >>had problem rebooting and I am too scared to try that for now. >> >>Any suggestions? Maybe John Smiley or Werner Puschitz might shed >>some light. >>Their articles probably saved me days of trouble shooting missing packages >>but it does not touch on this problem. >> >>ta >>tony >> >> >> >> >>-- >><//www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l>//www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l >> > > >-- >------------------------------------------------- >Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's >character, give him power. >-Abraham Lincoln, U.S. president (1809-1865) >Support free speech; visit <http://www.efa.org.au/>http://www.efa.org.au/ > >Heads Together Software Pty Ltd <http://www.hts.com.au>http://www.hts.com.au >Email: <mailto:hts@xxxxxxxxxx>hts@xxxxxxxxxx Tel: +44 7985 602 102 >