On 01/31/2012 01:57 PM, Dvorkin, Asya wrote: > > On Jan 31, 2012, at 7:45 AM, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: > >> This is what things look like on one of my systems: >> >> [root at centos57 ~]# cat /etc/redhat-release >> CentOS release 5.7 (Final) >> [root at centos57 ~]# ls -l /usr/lib64/libz.so* >> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 Jan 31 02:47 /usr/lib64/libz.so.1 -> >> ../../lib64/libz.so.1 >> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 25 Jan 31 02:47 /usr/lib64/libz.so.1.2.3 -> >> ../../lib64/libz.so.1.2.3 >> [root at centos57 ~]# ls -l /lib64/libz.so* >> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Jan 31 02:47 /lib64/libz.so.1 -> libz.so.1.2.3 >> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 83280 May 11 2011 /lib64/libz.so.1.2.3 >> >> If the symlink is missing you could try to manually recreate it. >> >> Regards, >> Dennis > > The problem is that the file itself is missing as well, so no way for me to recreate the link. Actually, libz.1.so.1.2.3 doesn't exist either. > > I could try copying the file from another CentOS server, but wanted to hear everyone's opinion on that… I'd say try that and as soon as you get yum/rpm working do a "yum reinstall zlib" to get the files properly in place again. Regards, Dennis