proftpd fails to start (error while loading shared lib)

rootinator · Post by **rootinator** » Mon Jan 16, 2006 9:53 pm

I'm getting an error when I try to start proftpd.

My details:
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latest version of Gentoox home, have moved installation to F-drive using resctoox /sbin/f-drive, have done an "emerge sync" and "emerge -av mysql apache2 mod_php".

After that I have tried to FTP to my box, but I never got a connection (connection refused).
I tried restarting/starting proFTPd and this is the error I got:

root@xbox gentoox # /etc/init.d/proftpd start
* Starting proftpd...
/usr/sbin/proftpd: error while loading shared libraries: libmysqlclient.so.12: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory [!!]

I must admit I never tried ftp'ing to my box, before I emerged mysql, apache2 and mod_php. It would seem that the emerge of mysql has done something to proftpd, because now I can't start the service

Please help - it would be nice to FTP into my little webserver

orochi · Post by **orochi** » Tue Jan 17, 2006 1:08 am

the error is because that file its looking for does not exist, see if your config files are trying to use mysql for its config files

i found this on gentoo.org forums
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-41 ... error.html

rootinator · Post by **rootinator** » Tue Jan 17, 2006 2:36 am

I think I might have messed up when I emerged mysql in this version of Gentoox. If I remember correctly mysql is already included in Home, and I'm guessing that the proftpd-login-info was in a table in some database

Guess I'll have to do the whole thing over again...

orochi · Post by **orochi** » Thu Jan 19, 2006 4:49 am

I think forums.gentoo.org has a post on what format mysql should be setup with proftpd tables in case your looking for a decent read.