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Reputation: 273

Getting cp: error while loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory error

I'm getting below error in centOS. This started happens when in /lib64/ I renamed libc.so.6 as libc.so.6.backup. Now I'm unable to do anything on VM. None of cp, ls and no other commands are working. Please help me to get this fixed. 

 cp: error while loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
    grep: error while loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2331

Answers (1)

Florian Weimer
Florian Weimer

Reputation: 33704

You really should not try to replace glibc on a system, expect by upgrading it to a version supplied by the distribution, using the distribution package manager.

That being said, on CentOS systems, /usr/sbin/sln is statically linked and can be used to add a symbolic link, with something like this:

/usr/sbin/sln /lib64/libc.so.6 /lib64/libc.so.6.backup

Upvotes: 1

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