idconfig ??

[Capt Turk]

Every time I upgrade or install anything with Synaptic it shows and error of "can not find idconfig".  Everything seems to work but I still would like to know whats going on and how to fix it.

From what I've been able to figure out it has something to do with registering new or updated software.

[Bald Brick]

Every time I upgrade or install anything with Synaptic it shows and error of "can not find idconfig".  Everything seems to work but I still would like to know whats going on and how to fix it.

From what I've been able to figure out it has something to do with registering new or updated software.

I strongly suspect that "idconfig" really should be "ldconfig": http://linux.die.net/man/8/ldconfig.

/sbin/ldconfig comes with the package glibc-2.12.1-3pclos2011. You could try reinstalling it.

[Capt Turk]

Reinstalling fixed it.  Thanks a bunch.

[Bald Brick]

 

[Capt Turk]

Looks like it ain't solved after all.

Every time I do an update, it comes up again.  Solution of re-installing doesn't seem to stick.

[Bald Brick]

Looks like it ain't solved after all.

Every time I do an update, it comes up again.  Solution of re-installing doesn't seem to stick.

Strange. Have you checked whether the error message is correct? Is /sbin/ldconfig still installed when you get it? What about the folder /var/cache/ldconfig?

[Capt Turk]

Yup.  Both are there.
After re-installing all the glibc stuff, this is what I got when installing wammu..



While installing package wammu-0.35-1pclos2011:

/var/lib/rpm/filetriggers/ldconfig.script: line 2: ldconfig: command not found

[AS]

What's the error you see really ? "can not find idconfig" or "can not find ldconfig" ?  I or L ?

[daniel]

Try

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echo $PATH in a konsole/terminal
Is sbin listet?

When not edit your ~/.bash_profile

Add sbin by PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin

Looks like after:
PATH=/sbin:$PATH:$HOME/bin

Good luck

[Bald Brick]

There used to be an idconfig in some versions of Unix, but I've never seen it in PCLinuxOS. It certainly doesn't exist on my main machine and nevertheless I don't get the error message.

I wonder if root's PATH variable has got corrupt somehow. What do you get if you su to root and run "echo $PATH". You could try both "su" and "su -" to become root.




Edit: Ah! Leiche got the same idea a bit faster, but I didn't remove this post because if the PATH is corrupt it's more likely not to be you normal user's PATH. (Synaptic is run as root.)

[Ozdemon]

Try

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echo $PATH in a konsole/terminal
Is sbin listet?

When not edit your ~/.bash_profile

Add sbin by PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin

Looks like after:
PATH=/sbin:$PATH:$HOME/bin

Good luck

I am getting the same message as the OP every time I use Synaptic. Can you clarify the above, i.e. do I add

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PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin and

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PATH=/sbin:$PATH:$HOME/binto the ~/.bash_profile?

[Bald Brick]

Try

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echo $PATH in a konsole/terminal
Is sbin listet?

When not edit your ~/.bash_profile

Add sbin by PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin

Looks like after:
PATH=/sbin:$PATH:$HOME/bin

Good luck

I am getting the same message as the OP every time I use Synaptic. Can you clarify the above, i.e. do I add

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PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin and

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PATH=/sbin:$PATH:$HOME/binto the ~/.bash_profile?

Leiche meant that you probably have the line

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PATH=$PATH:$HOME/binin your ~/.bash_profile, and he suggests that you change it to

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PATH=/sbin:$PATH:$HOME/bin
But note that this will only change your ordinary user's PATH variable, where sbin strictly speaking shouldn't be necessary. Run

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echo $PATH first, both as your ordinary user and after suing to root both with "su" and with "su -". Post the output.

[Ozdemon]

Thanks for the reply. The contents of my bash profile are:

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# .bash_profile

# Get the aliases and functions
if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then
        . ~/.bashrc
fi

mesg n

Does this mean I need to look elsewhere for a solution?
P.S the results of echo $PATH are:

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bash-4.1$ echo $PATH
/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/games:/usr/lib/qt4/bin
bash-4.1

[daniel]

copy and paste in a terminal/konsole

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cat ~/.bash_profile
Post output

[Ozdemon]

copy and paste in a terminal/konsole

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cat ~/.bash_profile
Post output

I wasn't sure if I should use the command as user or root so I used both.

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$ cat ~/.bash_profile
cat: /home/user/.bash_profile: No such file or directory
bash-4.1
============================================
# cat ~/.bash_profile
# .bash_profile

# Get the aliases and functions
if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then
        . ~/.bashrc
fi

mesg n