Thread: BUG #13630: initdb - libreadline.so.6 symbol BC error

The following bug has been logged on the website:

Bug reference:      13630
Logged by:          Bruce Silveria
Email address:      bruce@sum-it.com
PostgreSQL version: 9.4.4
Operating system:   Solaris 10 u10
Description:

Version 9.4.1 installs and runs but initdb in versions 9.4.2 thru 9.4.4
returns the following error:

initdb --encoding=UTF8 /u/pgsql

ld.so.1: initdb: fatal: relocation error: file
/usr/local/lib/libreadline.so.6: symbol BC: referenced symbol not found
Killed

My apologies if I have sent this to the wrong place.

bruce@sum-it.com writes:
> The following bug has been logged on the website:
> Bug reference:      13630
> Logged by:          Bruce Silveria
> Email address:      bruce@sum-it.com
> PostgreSQL version: 9.4.4
> Operating system:   Solaris 10 u10
> Description:

> Version 9.4.1 installs and runs but initdb in versions 9.4.2 thru 9.4.4
> returns the following error:

> initdb --encoding=UTF8 /u/pgsql

> ld.so.1: initdb: fatal: relocation error: file
> /usr/local/lib/libreadline.so.6: symbol BC: referenced symbol not found
> Killed

[ scratches head... ]  I looked through all the commits between 9.4.1 and
9.4.2 and couldn't find any changes that seemed likely to be related to
this.  Are you sure you are building 9.4.1 and the later versions in
exactly the same way?  What configure options are you using, anyway?
("pg_config" output from working 9.4.1 and broken 9.4.2 might be useful
to compare.)

            regards, tom lane

Bruce Silveria <bruce@sum-it.com> writes:
> Thanks for the quick response.

> Here's a bit more info (just to fill in some of the details):

> OS: Solaris 10 i386 u10 "clean install" in a Vmware ESXi enviroment
> Installed Python 2.7.10 and its dependencies in /usr/local. Packages from
> unixpackages.com
> This included readline-6.3
> Downloaded postgresql-9.4.4-S10.i386-32.tar.bz2
> Initially libreadline.so.6 was not found by the initdb command so I set
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib; export LD_LIBRARY_PATH
> Then I got the BC symbol error.
> I had installed prior versions of postgresql successfully so after a bit of
> trail and error (mostly error) I worked back to 9.4.1 which worked.
> I also decided to try postgresql-9.5alpha2-S10.i386-32.tar.bz2 which I was
> able to install and run successfully.

Huh.  That's even odder, because if we did break it in 9.4.2, it would
surely have been from a patch that also went into the 9.5 branch.  The
lack of a problem in 9.5alpha2 says that this probably doesn't correlate
with anything we did to the Postgres sources.

But I'd supposed that you were building Postgres from source, and what
this description sounds like is that you were installing executables built
by someone else.  In that case, the most likely explanation is some shift
in their build process.  You should ask the packager about it.

            regards, tom lane