On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 10:42 PM, David Brodbeck <g...@gull.us> wrote: > On Jul 7, 2010, at 10:12 AM, David Brodbeck wrote: >> On Wed, July 7, 2010 2:20 am, mcoyles wrote: >>> David - have a look here... >>> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2010-April/016405.html >> >> OK, I see. It looks like rtld is part of world, not a port, so then the >> question becomes, why didn't freebsd-update update it for me? Is there a >> way I can force a binary upgrade, or do I need to download the source and >> rebuild things that way? > > I ended up downloading the 7.3 livefs ISO, booting off of it, and replacing > /libexec/ld-elf.so.1 with the one from the CD. That fixed the problem. > > I suspect the reason freebsd-update didn't upgrade it properly is it appears > it's impossible to replace this file on a running system, even in > single-user mode. Maybe there should be something in the release notes > about a 7.2 -> 7.3 upgrade being impossible to do properly except by booting > from CD?
make installworld happily does it, so can you - by renaming file to the *.old and then putting new on in it's place. So, it could be that freebsd-update isn't sophisticated enough to do such a trick. Timur. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
