"relocation error" when installing app

UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
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I'm trying to install Urchin5 log analyzer and I get the following message:

Sadly, I'm not all that good at lib tracing and troubleshooting, but I did attempt a few things. First, since this is a VPS, I can compare to the baseline fileset, and other servers on which this works. I used MD5 as a quick preliminary check and got identical values for /lib-es4/tls/libc.so.6 and /lib/ld-linux.so.2. I also did:

 #nm /lib/ld-linux.so.2 | grep _dl_out_of_memory
00017467 r _dl_out_of_memory
# nm /lib-es4/ld-linux.so.2 | grep _dl_out_of_memory
000132c0 R _dl_out_of_memory
000132c0 r _dl_out_of_memory_internal

I also checked for rogue copies of the libraries mentioned and the existence/MD5 sigs of dependencies:

# ldd /lib-es4/tls/libc.so.6
        /usr/lib/libcwait.so (0xb7f21000)
        /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb7f26000)
# md5 /usr/lib/libcwait.so /skel/usr/lib/libcwait.so
ed5423011767e398d687788b665357b1  /usr/lib/libcwait.so
ed5423011767e398d687788b665357b1  /skel/usr/lib/libcwait.so
# ldd /lib/ld-linux.so.2
        statically linked

So, afaik, everything that should be in place is, but clearly the installation fails and is offended by something related to the libraries. How in the world is a problem like this troubleshot? Is this problem familiar to anyone? Many thanks in advance.

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Can you try running:

# ldd -r /lib-es4/tls/libc.so.6

I'm suspicious about the " GLIBC_PRIVATE not defined" message.

What OS are you running please?

On my system (Ubuntu) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 is actually a link pointing to /lib/ld-2.9.so, perhaps your system's /lib/ld-?.?.so file is not as late a version and is lacking a GLIBC_PRIVATE definition?

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This is RHEL 4, deployed as a VPS environment. I mention that only because it pretty much guarantees a snail's pace of updates...

Mine is also a link...

# ll /lib/ld-linux.so.2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Sep 16  2008 /lib/ld-linux.so.2 -> ld-2.5.so

The strange thing is that exactly the same installation succeeds on an identical VPS on the same physical system, so apparently I've managed to pooch something in my environment...

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It would be worth doing an ll and a sum of the
/lib/ld-2.5.so
library file on both systems and seeing if they are the same or not?