On Fri, 25 Jun 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> With Mandrake 6.0, I have seen an "undefined symbol: BC" error
> with several applications using libreadline.so.
> 
> For instance:
> 
> $ smbstatus
> smbstatus: error in loading shared libraries: /usr/lib/libreadline.so.3: undefined 
>symbol: BC
> $ 
> 
> Apparently, this symbol was moved from one "so" to another one
> after the calling applications were built.
> 
> Now, BC is defined in libncurses and libtermcap :
> 
> $ nm -o 2>/dev/null /usr/lib/lib*.so | grep ' BC'
> /usr/lib/libcurses.so:0003e4ac B BC
> /usr/lib/libncurses.so:0003e4ac B BC
> /usr/lib/libreadline.so:         U BC
> /usr/lib/libtermcap.so:00003820 B BC
> $ 
> 
> (note that libcurses points to libncurses)
> 
> But smbstatus does not reference any of them :
> 
> $ ldd /usr/bin/smbstatus
>         /lib/libNoVersion.so.1 => /lib/libNoVersion.so.1 (0x40015000)
>         libreadline.so.3 => /usr/lib/libreadline.so.3 (0x40022000)
>         libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x40048000)
>         libcrypt.so.1 => /lib/libcrypt.so.1 (0x4004b000)
>         libpam.so.0 => /lib/libpam.so.0 (0x40078000)
>         libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x40080000)
>         /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000)
> $ 
> 
> I tried to force the usage of libncurses.so using the environment
> variable which is mentioned in "man ld.so", but it does not work
> either (but I am not sure to use it correctly) :
> 
>        LD_AOUT_PRELOAD
>               The  name  of an additional, user-specified, shared
>               library to be loaded after all others.  This can be
>               used  to  selectively  override  functions in other
>               shared libraries.
> 
> $ LD_AOUT_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libncurses.so
> $ export LD_AOUT_PRELOAD
> $ smbstatus
> smbstatus: error in loading shared libraries: /usr/lib/libreadline.so.3: undefined 
>symbol: BC
> $
> 
> I checked that smbstatus has no setuid bit which could prevent
> this from working.
> 
> Any idea ?


Sure update your samba package, it is infinatly broken. samba-2.0.4b-8mdk
Should do the trick

 
> -Thierry
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