So I re-created the /etc/ld.so.cache and straced hwinfo. Below is the output. Not sure why it is looking for /usr/lib64/tls and /lib64/tls and lib64/x86_64 these directories do not even exist on this system. I am going to build a parrallel system from scratch and see what I get: strace hwinfo execve("/usr/bin/hwinfo", ["hwinfo"], [/* 90 vars */]) = 0 brk(0) = 0xd95000 mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x7f0f8e547000 access("/etc/ld.so.preload", R_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3 fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=263453, ...}) = 0 mmap(NULL, 263453, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x7f0f8e506000 close(3) = 0 open("/lib64/tls/x86_64/libhd.so.20", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) stat("/lib64/tls/x86_64", 0x7ffe125500a0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/lib64/tls/libhd.so.20", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) stat("/lib64/tls", 0x7ffe125500a0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/lib64/x86_64/libhd.so.20", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) stat("/lib64/x86_64", 0x7ffe125500a0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/lib64/libhd.so.20", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) stat("/lib64", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=12288, ...}) = 0 open("/usr/lib64/tls/x86_64/libhd.so.20", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) stat("/usr/lib64/tls/x86_64", 0x7ffe125500a0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/usr/lib64/tls/libhd.so.20", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) stat("/usr/lib64/tls", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0 open("/usr/lib64/x86_64/libhd.so.20", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) stat("/usr/lib64/x86_64", 0x7ffe125500a0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/usr/lib64/libhd.so.20", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) stat("/usr/lib64", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=245760, ...}) = 0 writev(2, [{"hwinfo", 6}, {": ", 2}, {"error while loading shared libra"..., 36}, {": ", 2}, {"libhd.so.20", 11}, {": ", 2}, {"cannot open shared object file", 30}, {": ", 2}, {"No such file or directory", 25}, {"\n", 1}], 10hwinfo: error while loading shared libraries: libhd.so.20: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory ) = 117 exit_group(127) = ? +++ exited with 127 +++