/sbin/ldconfig: /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6.0.20-gdb.py is not an ELF file - it has the wrong magic bytes at the start

[Jonathan Wakely]

On 7 August 2014 12:02, YuGiOhJCJ Mailing-List wrote:
> Hello,
>
> After upgrading the gcc compiler of my system from gcc-4.8.2 to gcc-4.9.1, I got this error while running the "ldconfig" command:
> $ sudo ldconfig
> /sbin/ldconfig: /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6.0.20-gdb.py is not an ELF file - it has the wrong magic bytes at the start
>
> The /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6.0.20-gdb.py file is part of my new gcc-4.9.1 package.
>
> Why ldconfig complains please?

Because it assumes all files in /usr/lib are ELF files, and that file is not.

You can safely ignore it.