Bug#691212: gnome-shell: incorrectly reported missing shared libraries (possible multi-arch hassle)

[Michael Biebl]

On 23.10.2012 00:47, Sophoklis Goumas wrote:
> Package: gnome-shell
> Version: 3.4.2-2
> Severity: important
> 
> After a dist-upgrade and a clean reboot, I was brought up to
> a lightweight looking gnome-shell (with no window borders or panels).
> 
> At first I tried:
> $ gnome-shell --replace
> gnome-shell: error while loading shared libraries: libplds4.so.0d: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
> 

..
> 
> Thus issuing:
> # ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libplds4.so.0d /usr/lib/
> # ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libnspr4.so.0d /usr/lib/

You shouldn't that, as this is not a proper fix and it might mess up
your system.
Maybe you have an outdated linker cache.
Please remove those symlinks again, run ldconfig (as root) and then
attach the output of
ldd /usr/bin/gnome-shell.

Thanks,
Michael
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