libreadline missing msg question?

[BobMCT]

Running AIX 5.1.05 with mysql installed for some time now. For some reason I cannot start the mysql CLI as it results in the following messages:
exec():
0509-036 Cannot load program mysql because of the following errors:
0509-150 Dependent module /usr/lib/libreadline.a(libreadline.so) could not be loaded. 0509-152 Member libreadline.so is not found in archive

I've searched for libreadline.a and .so and they are both there as symbolic links pointing to /usr/local/lib/libreadline.a and .so respectively. The ownership of both is root:system and the permissions are r x.

Mysql works well when called from within programs.

I've been doing some research and most of the answers I find suggest to locate and verify the items I've already done so with.

Anyone have any ideas as to what I can do next to resolve this issue?

Thanks all.

B

 

[Ogzilal]

Hi,

update your environment variable LIBPATH to inculde the directory containing the missed archive : /usr/local/lib

export LIBPATH=$LIBPATH:/usr/local/lib

 

[BobMCT]

AAU;

Your suggestion seemed to make sense as I did NOT even have that ENV defined. However, here's the results:

exec(): 0509-036 Cannot load program mysql because of the following errors:
0509-150 Dependent module /usr/local/lib/libreadline.a(libreadline.so) could not be loaded. 0509-152 Member libreadline.so is not found in archive $ echo $LIBPATH :/usr/local/lib

I think I'm going to pursue locating a fresh copy of the libreadline bff and removing then relinstalling it. Who knows, maybe that will help in this case.

Any other suggestions welcomed.

Thanks.