Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 21:39:04 -0500 From: David Booth <davidb@boothscientific.com> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installworld broken on RELENG_6 by libc commit? Message-ID: <200710242139.04769.davidb@boothscientific.com> In-Reply-To: <20071025005432.GB8434@waalsdorp.nl> References: <20071025005432.GB8434@waalsdorp.nl>
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On Wednesday 24 October 2007, Alson van der Meulen wrote: > Hello, > > My installworld of RELENG_6 from a few hours ago failed with this > error (from memory): > /lib/libncurses.so.6: undefined symbol: __mb_sb_limit > > This broke everything that depended on libncurses, plus PAM. I had > to force a reboot via DDB and copy /usr/obj/lib/libc/libc.so.6 to > /lib using binaries from /rescue to fix it so I could run make > installworld again. > > I upgraded from RELENG_6 of October, 22. I believe I followed the > procedure from /usr/src/UPDATING fairly closely, except for the > reboot to single user part after installing the kernel: > mergemaster -p && make buildworld && make kernel && make > installworld && mergemaster && make delete-old > > I would expect libc to be installed before other libs. The > securelevel was -1, so it should be no problem to overwrite libc. > > Did I do something wrong or is this a bug/missing entry in > UPDATING? > > regards, > Alson > It is not something you did. I had the same problem and have just recovered from it.
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