Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

Hi, I have problems in a production machine, I cannot open a session, run commands ps,ls,df -k . The error is:
Could not load program ps:
Dependent module libc.a(shr.o) could not be loaded.
Could not load module libc.a(shr.o).

Can I help me??
Please, it's very urgent.
Thanks & Regards.
Cristina
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Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

Cristina: this sounds like your system libraries have gotten messed up somehow. On my system df, for example, shows the following

07:39:57jlane@unixi300d:~$ ldd /usr/bin/df
/usr/lib/libcrypt.a(shr.o)
/usr/lib/libc.a(shr.o)

libc.a is a symlink

07:40:09jlane@unixi300d:~$ ls -l /usr/lib/libc.a
lrwxrwxrwx 1 bin bin 19 1988-02-24 17:46 /usr/lib/libc.a -> /usr/ccs/lib/libc.a
07:40:23jlane@unixi300d:~$ ls -l /usr/ccs/lib/libc.a
-r-xr-xr-x 2 bin bin 6814486 2005-01-14 18:38 /usr/ccs/lib/libc.a

Can you mount the /usr filesystem on another box to check it out? Otherwise you'll have to boot into single-user mode.
The problem could be any deviation from the expected layout as shown above, missing files, bad permissions, etc.

HTH

Jim Lane
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Originally posted by: jubal

This may not solve your problem, but it typically the first
trick i try before debugging. installp installations can cause
the rpm database to become out of date on AIX systems.

updtvpkg examines every file delivered by installp
to determine if it provides shared library support. It also
updates the rpm database.

updtvpkg is idempotent so it doesnt hurt to run it as a precaution.

good luck
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Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

Hello - I'm having the same problem but I know that it is self-inflicted. Our AIX server is running 5.2 and nearing the time when it will be upgraded in about 6 months. The /usr directory was nearly filled up (98%) and I was concerned that it may become full before we do the upgrade. So in the interest of bying time I choose to move a few directories to /usr/local where there was plenty of space. Unfortunatly I moved /usr/css to /usr/local and immediately after deleting the /usr/css directory and attempting to symlink the /usr/local/css dir back to /usr I started getting the same errors.

Can anyone give me some suggestions on how to recover from this?

Thanks in advance.
Bill in OKC
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Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

I figured it out. Set the LIBPATH variable to where the ccs directory was moved and then everything started working again. Moved it back to /usr and all is good.

cta
bill
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