Re: RH problem

[Stephen J. Turnbull <nospam [at] sk.tsukuba.ac.jp>]

>>>>> Will == Will Newton <will [at] south-of-heaven.demon.co.uk> writes:

Will> Here's the output I get from fuser -a -v:

USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
/usr root 24297 ....m rc
root 24562 ....m S01reboot

No, rc and S01reboot shouldn't be anywhere near /usr. But you're a
Red Hat user, aren't you? They do this kind of stuff all the time.[1]
Eg, `rc' may be a shell script, `S01reboot' almost certainly is.
Maybe bash is linked to, say, /usr/lib/libreadline.so?

You probably wouldn't see this problem if you did a Windose-style
fdisk and reinstall; I bet you just have a duplicate library
somewhere. Try `(cd /lib; ls -d lib*.so* | sort; cd /usr/lib; ls -d lib*.so*
| sort) | sort | uniq -d', which will print a list of shadowed libraries
for you. (I think this works in bash 2.x, but you may need to use zsh.)

Footnotes:
[1] Debian does it occasionally, too. But Red Hat Linux, like
Microsoft Windows, clearly doesn't care if all parts are
user-servicable. Debian still pretends to....

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