Forum OpenACS Q&A: Can't load postgres.so - library not found. HELP!

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1: Can't load postgres.so - library not found. HELP!
Posted by Ravi Gadad on 08/12/00 02:20 AM
When I run AOLserver, it gives me a "Warning: could not load
/home/aol30/postgres.so:  libpq.so.2.1: cannot open shared
object file: No such file or directory".  I did everything specified in
the installation directions - I set the path in ld.so.conf and then
ran ldconfig (I even ran ldconfig -p, and libpq.so.2.1 WAS listed),
and then when that didn't change anything, I added the
LD_LIBRARY_PATH lines to my /etc/profile.  I still keep getting
this error.  I've set up the entire OpenACS system on another
server, and everything was working fine.. the only difference is
that last time, I used the RPM's, and this time, I compiled source
(with 16k block size).  Can anyone please help me?  I'm on a
tight deadline, so I'd appreciate ANY suggestions you might
have.  Thank you!
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2: Response to Can't load postgres.so - library not found. HELP! (response to 1)
Posted by Roberto Mello on 08/12/00 03:02 AM
This will probably solve your problem. Let us know if it doesn't. Taken from the documentation:

If you are running PG 7, make a symbolic link from libpq.so.2.0 pointing to libpq.so.2.1 because AOLserver looks for libpq.so.2.0 when
loading the driver:

cd /usr/local/pgsql/lib

ln -s libpq.so.2.1 libpq.so.2.0 (as user postgres)

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3: Response to Can't load postgres.so - library not found. HELP! (response to 1)
Posted by Ravi Gadad on 08/12/00 03:51 AM
Okay, I feel stupid.  Sorry about the alarm - it turns out I hadn't set
my pgsql directory to be executable.  I thought I'd done that.
Problem solved.