Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 10:55:32 -0800 From: David Brodbeck <gull@gull.us> To: weif@weif.net Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Issue upgrading to 7.4, looking for guidance Message-ID: <AANLkTimt_-ZhgMGr7XV4gzx553VRLJew5yDzma4VMpad@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <84r5bz13ai.fsf@maxwell.cjones.org> References: <84r5bz13ai.fsf@maxwell.cjones.org>
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I ran into a similar issue upgrading from 7.2 to 7.3. Here's the thread where I worked it out; it might be helpful in your case: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2010-July/218443.html My eventual solution was here, if you don't want to read through the whole thread: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2010-July/218884.html On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 6:36 PM, Keith Seyffarth <weif@weif.net> wrote: > > I recently was having problems with Firefox crashing, which appear to be > related to a requirement for semaphore support for Firefox after the > upgrade to the new version of GTK. > > Anyway, this left me with a 7.4 kernel and a 7.2 world. Which I > understand is supposed to work. > > > However, this broke CUPS for printing, and I need to be able to print to > pdf. This error is generated if I try to build cups, or when cups tries > to load on startup: > /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: ./mantohtml: invalid PT_PHDR > > > >From looking around on-line, it looks like somewhere between 7.2 and 7.4 > there was an incompatibility that causes this error in a number of places > (printing, samba, etc.) > > > So, it looks like I need to upgrade the rest of the way. But I can't get > the upgrade to work. I thought this was where to start: > > # freebsd-update -r 7.4-RELEASE upgrade > Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 4 mirrors found. > Fetching public key from update5.FreeBSD.org... failed. > Fetching public key from update4.FreeBSD.org... failed. > Fetching public key from update2.FreeBSD.org... failed. > Fetching public key from update3.FreeBSD.org... failed. > No mirrors remaining, giving up. > > So I ran uname -a to find that this is 7.4-PRERELEASE > > FreeBSD janet.weif.net 7.4-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 7.4-PRERELEASE #0: Thu Jan > 20 19:39:15 MST 2011 =A0 =A0 weif@janet.weif.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/JAN= ET > i386 > > > so I tried this: > > # freebsd-update -r 7.4-PRERELEASE upgrade > freebsd-update: Cannot upgrade from 7.4-PRERELEASE to itself > > > so, um, what do I need to do to address this error: > /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: ./mantohtml: invalid PT_PHDR > > > Keith S. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.o= rg" >
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