CentOS 7 LAMPP cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Sheng-Shan Chen
3 min readApr 19, 2021

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Maybe you can see this error code when you start lampp in CentOS 7

** (gedit:10150): WARNING **: 10:15:59.822: Set document metadata failed: Setting attribute metadata::gedit-position not supported
[root@localhost ~]# sudo /opt/lampp/lampp start
/bin/sh: error while loading shared libraries: libdl.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
/bin/sh: error while loading shared libraries: libdl.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
/bin/bash: error while loading shared libraries: libdl.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
/bin/sh: error while loading shared libraries: libdl.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
/opt/lampp/bin/gettext: error while loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
id: error while loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
/opt/lampp/share/xampp/xampplib: line 11: test: -ne: unary operator expected
/opt/lampp/bin/gettext: error while loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
XAMPP: cat: error while loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
/bin/sh: error while loading shared libraries: libdl.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
rm: error while loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
netstat: error while loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
/bin/sh: error while loading shared libraries: libdl.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
netstat: error while loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
/bin/sh: error while loading shared libraries: libdl.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
/opt/lampp/bin/gettext: error while loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
/opt/lampp/bin/httpd: error while loading shared libraries: librt.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
/opt/lampp/bin/gettext: error while loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
XAMPP: hostname: error while loading shared libraries: libnsl.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
netstat: error while loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
/bin/sh: error while loading shared libraries: libdl.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
/opt/lampp/bin/gettext: error while loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
/bin/sh: error while loading shared libraries: libdl.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
/opt/lampp/bin/gettext: error while loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
XAMPP: cat: error while loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
/bin/sh: error while loading shared libraries: libdl.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
rm: error while loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
netstat: error while loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
/bin/sh: error while loading shared libraries: libdl.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
/opt/lampp/bin/gettext: error while loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
/opt/lampp/bin/gettext: error while loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Solution:

sudo vi /opt/lampp/lampp

then modify

export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5

to

export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.8.0

Result:

sudo /opt/lampp/lampp start
Starting XAMPP for Linux 5.6.20-0...
XAMPP: Starting Apache...ok.
XAMPP: Starting MySQL...ok.
XAMPP: Starting ProFTPD...ok.

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