From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 25 04:06:32 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27E2916A41A for ; Thu, 25 Oct 2007 04:06:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from grafan@gmail.com) Received: from fk-out-0910.google.com (fk-out-0910.google.com [209.85.128.185]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A354A13C48A for ; Thu, 25 Oct 2007 04:06:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from grafan@gmail.com) Received: by fk-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id b27so475309fka for ; Wed, 24 Oct 2007 21:06:30 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=L/LdXPdPH5qb2SctDH3PFFbONYz+c0sNNV0pIRb202g=; b=TrCo/7+luc7EGgkM5ewDDdsQY0s4lRDAn3spKnRUj1pxuJV5PaTQ/+wN95gfcePej3EqFPeOdibmB/iXXn+tgFzqpEAG9Rxzy/2Om/znRrXy9Aho0S4EKlkypqAuJgVBnMCP9KTyn4dLlKV0czZ+4EN0XZzJXDo+4DZACIyf43M= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=pgSOCizw104LJaVZVukHC27dPnE7GU0JByQF6AKuLgUy2jzxtndricP9DsJjMUaWp7tO7DTUdga+25AI/x0cpWn4HADCMtYM6MOCT4c7Lw82WhSKSNdPY0h61uyugN385j6FY8G3foUsXYzFmsoqV0cv/qgf7QT/wFOtVdSMKwg= Received: by 10.82.146.14 with SMTP id t14mr2343329bud.1193285190514; Wed, 24 Oct 2007 21:06:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.82.113.14 with HTTP; Wed, 24 Oct 2007 21:06:30 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <6eb82e0710242106x7ddd84ebn506c74cb71932463@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 12:06:30 +0800 From: "Rong-en Fan" To: davidb@boothscientific.com In-Reply-To: <200710242139.04769.davidb@boothscientific.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20071025005432.GB8434@waalsdorp.nl> <200710242139.04769.davidb@boothscientific.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installworld broken on RELENG_6 by libc commit? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 04:06:32 -0000 On 10/25/07, David Booth wrote: > 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. Sorry for the trouble, see my HEADSUP message on -stable@. Regards, Rong-En Fan