Error while loading shared libraries: /usr/local/lib64/libssl.so.1.1

Question

I’m trying to compile openssl-1.1.0e on Centos 7 (7.3.1611) but after i successfully compiled everything without any warning, i get an error when i’m trying any openssl command

[mdm@dev openssl-1.1.0e]$ openssl version
openssl: error while loading shared libraries: libssl.so.1.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Is it a bug or my mistake?

Here below some info about my system/configuration

Configure:

[mdm@dev openssl-1.1.0e]$ ./Configure linux-x86_64 --prefix=/usr/local --openssldir=/usr/local

Make/Make test:

...
All tests successful.
Files=91, Tests=486, 44 wallclock secs ( 0.47 usr  0.08 sys + 27.72 cusr 13.41 csys = 41.68 CPU)
Result: PASS
...

Make install:

...
install libcrypto.a -> /usr/local/lib64/libcrypto.a
install libssl.a -> /usr/local/lib64/libssl.a
install libcrypto.so.1.1 -> /usr/local/lib64/libcrypto.so.1.1
link /usr/local/lib64/libcrypto.so -> /usr/local/lib64/libcrypto.so.1.1
install libssl.so.1.1 -> /usr/local/lib64/libssl.so.1.1
link /usr/local/lib64/libssl.so -> /usr/local/lib64/libssl.so.1.1
...

But if i check with ldd two libraries are not found despite Make install did its job...

[mdm@dev openssl-1.1.0e]$ ldd /usr/local/bin/openssl
linux-vdso.so.1 =>  (0x00007fffcfe75000)
/lib/$LIB/liblsp.so => /lib/lib64/liblsp.so (0x00007fa5cd77a000)
libssl.so.1.1 => not found
libcrypto.so.1.1 => not found
libdl.so.2 => /lib64/libdl.so.2 (0x00007fa5cd55d000)
libpthread.so.0 => /lib64/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007fa5cd341000)
libc.so.6 => /lib64/libc.so.6 (0x00007fa5ccf7f000)
/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007fa5cd981000)

I have already installed by distro a version of openssl:

[mdm@dev]$ openssl version
OpenSSL 1.0.1e-fips 11 Feb 2013

[mdm@dev]$ which openssl
/usr/bin/openssl

yum info openssl:

...
Installed Packages
Name        : openssl
Arch        : x86_64
Epoch       : 1
Version     : 1.0.1e
Release     : 60.el7_3.1
Size        : 1.5 M
Repo        : installed
From repo   : updates
...

Appreciate any help or suggestion!

Answer 1

I know this is late but in my case I did not have the libssl.so.1.1 on my server. There was a recommendation here to install openssl11-libs but not openssl11 as installing it could create problems.

Confirm you dont have libssl.so.1.1 on your server probably by trying locate libssl.so.1.1.

Simply do sudo yum install -y openssl11-libs if you don't have the libssl.so.1.1 library on your server.

It worked for me.

Answer 2

Sometime when you want climb the mountain you looking just the top without checking if something can help you on the base...

In my case I solved just exporting LD_LIBRARY_PATH before compile it again.

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib:/usr/local/lib64

and after

sudo ldconfig

that should keep saved the path also after rebooting machine (and also for next times)

Answer 3

thanks to levitte, RenatoXSR

for OpenSSL 1.1.0g, CentOS 7.2.1511, you can try this

sudo bash -c "echo '/usr/local/lib64' >> /etc/ld.so.conf"
sudo ldconfig

this link explains the cause of problem

The use of RPATH is inconsistent. On some systems, ld.so considers RPATH before even looking at LD_LIBRARY_PATH, which makes it hard to override, for example when testing a new OpenSSL build (!). We did so in pre-1.1.0 versions by hacking LD_PRELOAD, but there are some sanitizers that do not agree with that, which makes life hard as well, for example when testing a new OpenSSL build (!)

this link gave an solution example

Answer 4

Try this:

ldd libssl.so   ->  libcrypto.so.1.1 => not found
sudo ln -s /usr/local/lib64/libcrypto.so.1.1 /usr/lib64/libcrypto.so.1.1
libcrypto.so.1.1 => /lib64/libcrypto.so.1.1 (0x00007f17d46c7000)