Bug 9611 – ncurses 5.3 and passwd problem

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Bjarke Istrup Pedersen (RETIRED) 2002-10-24 11:35:14 UTC]

when I install ncurses 5.3 , passwd doesn't work because it can't 
find /lib/libcrack.so.2 . I found /lib/libcrack.so.2.7 but 
no /lib/libcrack.so.2 , so I made a copy of /lib/libcrack.so.2.7 
called /lib/libcrack.so.2 and it worked then.
So, there might be a problem in ncurses 5.3 since it doesn't create 
libcrack.so.2 or a problem in passwd that makes it use /lib/libcrack.so.2 
instead of /lib/libcrack.so.2.7

[Comment 1 Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) 2002-10-25 06:06:19 UTC]

portage eating symlinks?

[Comment 2 Bjarke Istrup Pedersen (RETIRED) 2002-10-25 06:29:17 UTC]

Well right now i'm reinstalling because of some problems with my raid system.
But I'll report back as soon as i get to the passwd part of the installation 
process.

[Comment 3 Bjarke Istrup Pedersen (RETIRED) 2002-10-25 15:58:26 UTC]

yep, libcrack.so.2 isn't there, shall I make a symlink to libcrack.so.2.7 ?

[Comment 4 Nick Hadaway 2002-10-25 18:27:47 UTC]

-r6 has been released into portage which adds this missing symlink.  It is
currently marked unstable.  Please let me know if your problems are solved by
this fix as this seems major enough to get other gentoo users up to date.

[Comment 5 Bjarke Istrup Pedersen (RETIRED) 2002-10-25 18:36:07 UTC]

well, I have created the symlink myself with the other version (5.3), and it 
works perfect.
So I would be very unhappy if this brakes something.
Can you assure me, that this symlink thing is the only thing that has changed? 
(Because I DON'T want to reinstall again)

[Comment 6 Nick Hadaway 2002-10-26 00:36:20 UTC]

The symlink problem was with cracklib... not with ncurses...

There are no other issues that I am aware of currently.

[Comment 7 Nicholas Jones (RETIRED) 2002-10-26 01:15:28 UTC]

Ok. I KNOW ncurses is fine.
I fixed the symlink-loss-on-downgrade issue in portage.

Have you tried running 'ldconfig'?

[Comment 8 Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) 2002-10-27 18:44:33 UTC]

*** Bug 9726 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 9 Nick Hadaway 2002-10-30 19:58:36 UTC]

I have now updated 3 different systems to ncurses-5.3-r1 and I don't have any
issues... Are any other programs not linking with this new ebuild of ncurses?

[Comment 10 SpanKY 2002-11-03 22:02:28 UTC]

*** Bug 10168 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 11 Nick Hadaway 2002-12-10 23:05:45 UTC]

ncurses-5.3 has been marked stable for x86

[Comment 12 Bjarke Istrup Pedersen (RETIRED) 2002-12-18 12:22:02 UTC]

Well this problem seems to have been solved.