Fixing “error while loading shared libraries: libgssapi_krb5.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory.”

Posted by Eric Bartels

One of my development systems is running on Debian Lenny (no this one does not host SharePoint). After update the system via apt-get update something went wrong and “core services” (samba, ssh) were out of order.

It seems this is a bug in the packages provided by Debian. After struggling for a while a simple

apt-get install libkrb53 --reinstall

fixed the problem and everything works again.

5 Responses to “Fixing “error while loading shared libraries: libgssapi_krb5.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory.””

  1. Russ, on December 16th, 2009 at 3:44 am Said:

    Hey, thanks! I got that same error message this evening. I tried what you recommended; it worked.

  2. Eric Bartels, on December 16th, 2009 at 10:30 am Said:

    @Russ I’m glad I could help :-)

  3. stanio, on December 22nd, 2009 at 12:33 am Said:

    thanx a lot!

  4. fak3r, on April 7th, 2010 at 7:03 pm Said:

    Thanks, just had this error on a box I was logged into remotely, had the onsite admin try a few things then I found this and that fixed it! Thanks for sharing, glad to find/use it.

  5. VL, on January 11th, 2013 at 12:29 pm Said:

    Thank you very much. It did resolve a similar problem.

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