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In a couple of situations, I'm getting errors reading from .so files. First, when compiling my code base with g++, I get the error:

/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/librt.so: could not read symbols: Invalid operation

Second, when trying to load a library we are developing in Python with a line like:

ctypes.cdll.LoadLibrary("libshm.so")

we get the error that:

OSError: libshm.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

However, both of these files can be found manually and we have even checked that the symbols are readable. These load well in Ubuntu 11.04 systems and in other systems running Arch Linux and Debian.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

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Could you edit your question to include locate libshm.so? Also, try running your compiler with -lrt? – Jacob Johan Edwards Jan 23 '12 at 2:31
This question appears to be abandoned and unanswered, could you perhaps edit and add more detail to your question? If this question no longer applies then you can either delete it or answer it yourself if you've solved the problem. Thanks! – Jorge Castro Mar 15 '12 at 19:44

closed as too localized by Ringtail, bodhi.zazen, jrg♦ Apr 5 '12 at 13:22

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