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Fixing ldconfig libraries.

After a catastrophic experience, I have since avoided tinkering with ldconfig, and in general it should remain left alone, and for the system to manage. For those who did not heed this warning, below is how to return ldconfig back to a state of normality.

With regard to ldconfig:

I do not follow the recommended convention of using doas , mainly because doas came after my use of OpenBSD, the installation of sudo on my system, and after I had already disabled login for root. Also, it is bloody tedious having to type doas for every single command.

1. sudo cat /etc/rc.conf.local ensure that you do not see a line that begins with shlib_dirs. If you do, delete it. The default installation does not have one.
2. run sudo ldconfig -U and see if this fixes it.
3. If the above does not fix it, then you are going to need to be brave. Run sudo rm /var/run/ld.so.hints , then run sudo ldconfig -R and this should regenerate your /var/run/ld.so.hints file. If it outputs an error that /var/run/ld.so.hints cannot be found, then run the command without the -R flag. So, just sudo ldconfig. This should clear up everything.
4. Check to see if the hints file exists. sudo ldconfig -r.
5. Reboot your system.