idconfig wrong magic bytes at start error

ds6pex · 2022-03-14 08:26:24

Hi, I just reinstalled ArchLinux.
And i get error like under when i'm trying to install package.
" idconfig: /usr/lib/lib/Xaw7.so.7.0.0 is not an ELF file - it has the wrong magic bytes at the start. "
Can someone teach me what is ELF and how to fix this error?

V1del · 2022-03-14 08:48:22

What exactly are you trying to install where and how? Post the entire command output, as well as

pacman -Qkk libxaw
lsblk -f

that also looks like a weirdly ORCd output, you can copy literal error messages rather than running them through some weird screenshot grabber/introducing typos while transcribing yourself. It's ldconfig with a lowercase L and /usr/lib/libXaw7.so.7.0.0 without a slash after the second lib

If you get this routinely for multiple packages then you have disk corruption and you probably want to run a SMART test using smartctl (you can and should do so from a live disk while not having the potentially faulty disk mounted/actively using it) and then post smartctl -a $drive after the mentioned time frame has elapsed.

Post outputs to a pastebin or in code tags

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ds6pex · 2022-03-15 00:11:47

Thanks for lifting reply.
And yes, I get this error routinely for every time installing packages.

https://imgur.com/uh6Z86d This one is full screenshot image of error message. (I coudn't copy or write it because it was too long and running on other computer.)
https://imgur.com/a/S0b5kg9 And this one is result of smartctl -a command.

Last edited by ds6pex (2022-03-15 00:17:25)

seth · 2022-03-15 07:21:26

I coudn't copy or write it because it was too long and running on other computer.

V1del wrote:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/List_o … n_services

No need for copy-and paste.

There's a humongous amount of erase failures and you seem to have used all reserve blocks after almost 18TB being written - looks like the disk is toast.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Badblocks

ds6pex · 2022-03-15 10:35:54

Hi, Thanks for lifting reply.
It seems like we can't solve this problem anymore. But don't worry.
I've already backuped important files and i just decied to reformat the drive and then reinstalling it. And it's woring nomally now.
There was no physical problem with hard disk. I think i've gotten forget something to install when i was installing it.
Anyway Thanks for helping me.

seth · 2022-03-15 13:59:44

There was no physical problem with hard disk. I think i've gotten forget something to install when i was installing it.

The SMART data strongly suggest differently and the circumstancial evidence very much supports that the drive is falling apart.
There's no " forget something to install" that would explain the symptoms, but the format and re-installation will have allowed the drive to stay away from the worn out sectors - for the moment.
Please post the complete smartctl outptut (as text, not an image) and be aware that THE DRIVE IS MOST LIKELY DYING!

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idconfig wrong magic bytes at start error

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