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Date:      08 Jan 2003 13:52:41 -0500
From:      Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 4.7Release - sed problems?
Message-ID:  <44adib324m.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
In-Reply-To: <000a01c2b5ae$4867e2e0$c905010a@daylight.net>
References:  <000a01c2b5ae$4867e2e0$c905010a@daylight.net>

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"John Brooks" <john@day-light.com> writes:

> I'm working on a new clean install of 4.7R from the iso.
> 
> dmesg gives an error:
>   "pid 94 (sed), uid 0: exited on signal 4 (core dumped)"
> this comes from the 'sed' call in 'update_motd'
> 
> installing applications from ports also fail on 'sed' calls
> 
> release notes on 4.7 indicate:
>   "sed(1) now takes a -i option to enable in-place editing of files."
> 
> my question:
> Does this mean that the wrong version of sed is included in the iso of disk 1?

No, the error would manifest differently if that were the case.

Sounds like your sed binary is corrupt (or maybe a library).

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