-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Tzafrir Cohen <tzaf...@cohens.org.il> writes:
> On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 07:40:00PM +0100, Merciadri Luca wrote: >> >> I am encountering >> >> == >> ldconfig: /usr/lib/libwins.so is not an ELF file - it has the wrong magic >> bytes at the start. >> == >> >> from ldconfig. Everything seems however to work nicely. Some questions >> naturally arise: >> >> 1. What is the role of libwins.so? > > Normally files that are simply .so (without any extra version) under > */lib/ are symlinks intended for build-time. Maybe this is merely a > dandling link? > > What is the output of: > > ls -l /usr/lib/libwins.so Not joyful: == # ls -l /usr/lib/libwins.so ls: cannot access /usr/lib/libwins.so: No such file or directory == Is it possible, or must this file have disappeared since last try? > And then again, you can check the magic directly: > > file /usr/lib/libwins.so By the same mechanism, == # file /usr/lib/libwins.so /usr/lib/libwins.so: ERROR: cannot open `/usr/lib/libwins.so' (No such file or directory) == Note that I received this error when installing some packages. (I do not remember their names, sorry.) >> 2. Should I simply download libwins.so in BIN from an FTP server, and >> put it there, to solve the problem? > > Is it part of some package? I get no hits for 'apt-file search > /usr/lib/libwins.so' here (squeeze, amd64). I do not know. I do not even know its role. I tried googling about it, but it did not show me anything interesting. Thanks. - -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ - -- Don't try to teach a pig to sing. It doesn't work, and you'll annoy the pig. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.5.8 <http://mailcrypt.sourceforge.net/> iEYEARECAAYFAktlzCYACgkQM0LLzLt8MhyTCgCgo3xo7+D7k1FqYz64BEGYEK9m eVcAniyQx0oMDy8dx+LnSmhy49Qbe8Hj =G6Iq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
