# python probelm

**URL:** <https://community.unix.com/t/python-probelm/186435>\
**Category:** Shell Programming and Scripting\
**Created:** [February 22, 2008, 9:57am UTC](https://community.unix.com/t/python-probelm/186435 "2008-02-22T09:57:50Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![jaganadh](https://community.unix.com/user_avatar/community.unix.com/jaganadh/32/3694_2.png) [@jaganadh](https://community.unix.com/u/jaganadh)\
**Post date:** [February 22, 2008, 9:57am UTC](https://community.unix.com/t/python-probelm/186435/1 "2008-02-22T09:57:50Z")

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Colleagues  
when i types python in console my system shows following error message  
python: error while loading shared libraries: /usr/lib/libdb.so.3: ELF file OS ABI invalid  
Any solution.  
My machine is Fedora Core 6

jaganadh

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**Author:** ![jim\_mcnamara](https://community.unix.com/letter_avatar/jim_mcnamara/32/5_5575768a8748004e209b776fc1b2916d.png) [@jim\_mcnamara](https://community.unix.com/u/jim_mcnamara)\
**Post date:** [February 22, 2008, 10:12am UTC](https://community.unix.com/t/python-probelm/186435/2 "2008-02-22T10:12:25Z")

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what do these command give as output:

```nohighlight
/usr/bin/file /usr/lib/libdb.so.3
ls -l /usr/lib/libdb.so.3

```

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**Author:** ![jaganadh](https://community.unix.com/user_avatar/community.unix.com/jaganadh/32/3694_2.png) [@jaganadh](https://community.unix.com/u/jaganadh)\
**Post date:** [February 22, 2008, 10:20am UTC](https://community.unix.com/t/python-probelm/186435/3 "2008-02-22T10:20:55Z")

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-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 274556 2008-02-22 20:01 /usr/lib/libdb.so.3

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**Author:** ![jaganadh](https://community.unix.com/user_avatar/community.unix.com/jaganadh/32/3694_2.png) [@jaganadh](https://community.unix.com/u/jaganadh)\
**Post date:** [February 22, 2008, 10:37am UTC](https://community.unix.com/t/python-probelm/186435/4 "2008-02-22T10:37:31Z")

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]# file /usr/lib/libdb.so.3  
/usr/lib/libdb.so.3: ELF 32-bit LSB shared object, ARM, version 1, stripped

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**Author:** ![jim\_mcnamara](https://community.unix.com/letter_avatar/jim_mcnamara/32/5_5575768a8748004e209b776fc1b2916d.png) [@jim\_mcnamara](https://community.unix.com/u/jim_mcnamara)\
**Post date:** [February 22, 2008, 10:48am UTC](https://community.unix.com/t/python-probelm/186435/5 "2008-02-22T10:48:35Z")

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It looks like somebody just installed or touched libdb.

If you are on a 32 bit ARM box: you need to reinstall whatever updated libdb - it was changed today - 22 February. It looks like it is corrupted.

If you are not on a 32 bit ARM box, you have the wrong version of libdb.