This post will guide the user on how to reinstall a corrupted library via yum.
In general, the command below will find which package the corrupted library belongs to:
# yum provides \*/[so_file]
In this example, we used this error message “/bin/login: error while loading shared libraries: /lib64/libcrypt.so.1: file too short” to identify the corrupted library and the find the package it originally came from:
# yum provides \*/libcrypt.so.1 ... glibc-2.17-260.0.17.el7_6.6.x86_64 : The GNU libc libraries Repo : ol7_x86_64_latest Matched from: Filename : /lib64/libcrypt.so.1
In this case, the package the library originally came from is “glibc-2.17-260.0.17.el7_6.6.x86_64“. This is the package that needs to be reinstalled. The general command is:
# yum reinstall [package name]
From our example, the command is:
# yum reinstall glibc-2.17-260.0.17.el7_6.6.x86_64