+++ Phil Endecott [2013-05-07 20:36 +0000]: > I eventually discovered that things would run if I invoked the dynamic > linker directly: > > # /lib/ld-linux-armhf.so.3 /bin/ls > > I was then able to establish that my existing executables want a dynamic > linker called /lib/ld-linux.so.3, while I now have only > /lib/ld-linux-armhf.so.3 . By symlinking the latter to the former, the > system is apparently functional again. > > So what is the root problem here?
Your original install was built before the name for the armhf linker was agreed between distros. Once it was agreed (with a different path to the one Debian originally picked) everything had to be (incompatibly) rebuilt. Yes this is very annoying, especially to anyone who installed from that early ports repo. That repo was never 'released' in any proper way and it was thought that anyone using it was following development closely enough to notice the linker-name change (there was quite a lot of discussion about this on the lists). Sorry that you missed that until finding out the hard way. Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Emdebian, Wookware, Balloonboard, ARM http://wookware.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
