SVN Error While Loading Shared Libraries: libcom_err.so.3

/* Posted October 8th, 2008 at 8:39am */
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If you encounter this error while performing any SVN action, it’s because your libcom_err.so.3 file does not exist. The full error of
svn: error while loading shared libraries: libcom_err.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
can occur when executing an svn command, or any Linux command for that matter, as long as it requires libcom_err.so.3. The file should be located in your /lib directory. In mine, I had libcom_err.so.2 and libcom_err.so.2.1 files listed as already residing in that directory, with libcom_err.so.2 as a symbolic link to libcom_err.so.2.1. In a similar spirit, simply create a new symbolic link in /lib by executing this command:
% ln -s /lib/libcom_err.so.2.1 /lib/libcom_err.so.3
Then try your SVN command again and it should work now. I did this on a host running CentOS 4.7.

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One Response to “SVN Error While Loading Shared Libraries: libcom_err.so.3”

  • Comment from grateful

    thanks, it worked perfect for me!


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