Bug 68607

Summary:	heimdal doesn't install libcom_err.so, if it's already installed
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Mike Williams <mike>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Kerberos Maintainers <kerberos>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	anthony, menion, pacopablo, rphillips
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Mike Williams 2004-10-22 18:14:48 UTC

emerge heimdal
USE=kerberos emerge openssh
blah blah, work work, happy happy
emerge heimdal
argh, can't scp!

scp: error while loading shared libraries: libcom_err.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

emerge heimdal

woo, ssh is back.

For whatever reason, if heimdal is installed, and you re-install it, libcom_err.so doesn't get built/installed, so is rightly removed as part of the clean.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1 Ray Russell Reese III (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-10-28 21:48:54 UTC

I also have this very same problem, but sometimes doing upgrades it manifests itself differently, instead of all of libcom_err missing, I'm only missing the .la  file.

Comment 2 Joshua Schmidlkofer 2005-05-10 09:37:57 UTC

This is breaking a bunch of stuff for me.  
ssh is totally borked,  and I cannot build subversion.  Any Advice?

grep: /usr/lib/libcom_err.la: No such file or directory
/bin/sed: can't read /usr/lib/libcom_err.la: No such file or directory
libtool: link: `/usr/lib/libcom_err.la' is not a valid libtool archive
make: *** [subversion/libsvn_ra_dav/libsvn_ra_dav-1.la] Error 1
make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....

!!! ERROR: dev-util/subversion-1.1.3 failed.
!!! Function src_compile, Line 119, Exitcode 2
!!! make of subversion failed
!!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status message.

Comment 3 Mike Williams 2005-05-10 10:04:42 UTC

re-emerge heimdal, it should correctly build libcom_err.la then

Comment 4 John Hampton 2005-05-18 09:30:21 UTC

I'm having pretty much the same problems.  Postgresql wouldn't compile because
it was failing on a config check that failed because a heimdal program couldn't
load libcom_err.so.1.  I tried revdep-rebuilds but they would always fail
beacuse of the lack of libcom_err.so.1.  I finally was able to recompile most of
the packages but then ran into other packages that failed because of no
libcom_err.so.1.  I finally bit the bullet and manually creted a symlink.  My
question, however, is why doesn't libcom_err.so.1 seem to be created anymore by
any of the packages?

Comment 5 Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-06-06 08:58:02 UTC

e2fsprogs is who should install this, but now we even have sys-libs/com_err and
sys-libs/ss which are separated out.  the soon to be 0.64-r1 of heimdal will
take advantage of this fact.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 45682 ***