Date: Sun, 2 Feb 2003 11:42:23 -0600 From: "Jacques A. Vidrine" <nectar@FreeBSD.org> To: Kevin Day <toasty@dragondata.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Using 4.3-RELEASE's libc on 5.0 causes hard lockups Message-ID: <20030202174223.GB36076@opus.celabo.org> In-Reply-To: <5.1.1.5.2.20030202112759.0461fcc8@127.0.0.1> References: <5.1.1.5.2.20030202112759.0461fcc8@127.0.0.1>
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On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 11:41:32AM -0600, Kevin Day wrote:
> lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 9 Feb 1 00:18 libc.so -> libc.so.5
> lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 16 Jul 5 2002 libc.so.3 -> /usr/lib/libc.so
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
This is seriously messed up. See below.
> -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 571480 Aug 5 13:45 libc.so.4
> -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 836892 Feb 1 00:18 libc.so.5
>
>
> Shouldn't libc.so.4 have been a symlink to libc.so after a compat4x
> install? In any case, doing that myself seemed to fix everything.
No, this would cause you major problems. Binaries that expected the
libc.so.4 interface would be calling into libc.so.5, and probably
causing very strange behaviour.
Cheers,
--
Jacques A. Vidrine <nectar@celabo.org> http://www.celabo.org/
NTT/Verio SME . FreeBSD UNIX . Heimdal Kerberos
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