Well, long story short I asked my ISP to install linux onto my proxy-server-to-be, and as they couldn't find FC4 cds, they installed Redhat 9 (what the hell?) I got fed up with this geriatric excuse for an OS and got FC4 on my own, and upgraded the installation from RH9 to FC4. And now my VPN won't work. Basically, the reason I got them to install everything is that I'm an absolute beginner when it comes to Linux, and thus have no clue what to do. I connect to them through a wireless bridge using a VPN, and now whenever I start the machine up, it tries to initialise the HAL Daemon, which fails, and I get the following message repeated several times till the 5 minute 'cooling' period kicks in. The message is: /usr/sbin/pppd: error while loading shared library: libpcap.50.0.6.2:cannot open shared object file: no such directory or file. I was wondering if anyone knows how to fix this problem. I would contact my ISP and get them to help, but I don't want to run to them every 5 minutes (plus, they can't seem to follow instructions. I asked them to only install a few of the server packages, and I'd install other stuff on a need-to basis, but they go and do a default installation, and now I'm struggling to uninstall the crap I don't want, because it keeps on telling me to install other programs so I can uninstall the ones I want to get rid of...) where are the config files kept so I can poke around them and see what I can do?
You need libpcap installed, which you obviously havn't (atleast not in the right version). Did you installed pppd in some weird way? the libpcap that comes with fedora ought to be way newer. Btw. if you can get to a shell, you can run "ldd /usr/sbin/pppd" to see what libraries it is linked against and which are missing.
well, like I said, my ISP did the installation, and when I upgraded to fedora, i left it alone so it did it's own thing (no errors reported). I'll go try the command now
touch /var/lib/misc/prelink.force && /etc/cron.daily/prelink Code (markup): This command may take a hour (or even more sometimes) so be patient (don't stop [kill] this process!).
Heh, no I won't, but as we're having power problems in my area, the power tend to trip every so often, so if that had to happen, would the process be salvageable? Ie, would it be fixable?
Yes it would. Prelink has an 'undo' option so don't worry (I reather meant if You'd stop this process You're going to waste next hour(s) by do 'undo' and touch the prelink again)
cool. I tried yum command and unfortunately it wanted to connect to the net to find mirrors, so it was a catch-22
Well I've got FC3 so I'm not sure which repo You need... Anyway, if You are 64bit download it from here: http://rpmfind.net//linux/RPM/fedora/4/x86_64/libpcap-0.8.3-12.x86_64.html If You're not, select a package here: http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=libpcap And then update prelink.