On Mon, July 19, 2010 1:37 am, Timur I. Bakeyev wrote: > 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.
That doesn't work, unfortunately. Once you rename ld-elf.so.1 to ld-elf.so.1.old, trying to run any further commands -- even mv and cp -- fails with an error. (I didn't write down which one; something about failing to load the ELF interpreter, I think.) I know, I managed to cripple my system that way. I had to boot a LiveCD to recover, because it couldn't even load /bin/sh to get into single-user mode. _______________________________________________ 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"
