The person who gave you those instructions should be shot in my humble opinion. Those links aren't there to be changed!
here are the original links from my box, though your's may vary:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Apr 15 01:43 libc.so.6 -> libc-2.3.2.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Apr 15 01:43 libpthread.so.0 -> libpthread-0.34.so
Both links are owned by the glibc package. My glibc is: glibc-2.3.2-27.9
If you have a different version (do rpm -q glibc to check) I recommend (downloading and) reinstalling your glibc with
rpm -U --replacepkgs glibc.yourversion.yourcpu.rpm
which will solve the problem also.
Eric.
Brian Schmidt wrote:
Based on some instructions I got in order to run some updates for a piece of software, I seem to have hosed something. This is the process that seems to have broken it:
ln -sf /lib/libc-2.3.1.so /lib/tls/libc.so.6 ln -sf /lib/libpthread-0.10.so /lib/tls/libpthread.so.0 I then did: ln -sf /lib/tls/libc-2.3.2.so /lib/tls/libc.so.6 ln -sf /lib/libpthread-0.29.so /lib/tls/libpthread.so.0
