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Date:      Sun, 22 Jun 2008 21:25:55 -0700
From:      FT <freebsd@t41t.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   shared object "libc.so.6" not found after freebsd-update
Message-ID:  <20080623042555.GC27531@ece.pdx.edu>

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I was using freebsd-update to upgrade from 6.2 to 7.0-RELEASE. The upgrade
and install of the kernel went fine, then I reran freebsd-update after
rebooting to get the userland stuff. Midway through installing updates,
I got the error:

	Installing updates.../libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object
	"libc.so.6" not found, required by "rm"

There's a libc.so.7 in /lib. I'd try linking to it, but ln of course 
requires libc.

Without libc, almost nothing works... can someone guide me through how
to recover a functional libc and finish updating (without breaking
everything)?

I was following the instructions at
http://www.freebsd.org/releases/7.0R/announce.html. Was there some step
missing that would have prevented this mess?

Thanks




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