memcached calling wrong libevent

Question

When I try to run memcached from shell I get:

memcached: error while loading shared libraries: libevent-1.1a.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

However, i've installed a newer version using yum install libevent. I have also created a .conf file in /etc/ld.so.conf.d/ to say where it is. I have confirmed that libconfig is loading it from the correct location.

so, how do I get memcached to load it from the correct place?

I've done yum install memcached and that has installed memcached 1.4.5-1.e15 and libevent 1.4.13-1. Running Centos5.2 final. I've gone for even removing both and trying again, still no go.

Your system is more than three years out of date. Update it. `yum --obsoletes update` — Michael Hampton, Mar 06 '13 at 12:05
@MichaelHampton Might that mess up a few things (configs/etc)? — David, Mar 06 '13 at 14:53
hm, not so sure that is true. This is on a development environment for a small team. We don't have the resources to be fixing numerous config files just becuase we should 'update' something. — David, Mar 06 '13 at 15:08

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 11 '13 at 17:41

memcached: error while loading shared libraries: libevent-1.1a.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

yum provides */libevent-1.1a.so.1
...
compat-libevent-11a-3.2.1-1.el5.rf.x86_64 : Abstract asynchronous event notification library - backwards compatibility
Repo        : rpmforge
Matched from:
Filename    : /usr/lib64/libevent-1.1a.so.1

so, how do I get memcached to load it from the correct place?

Install compat-libevent-11a and try again.

memcached calling wrong libevent

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