Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2000 20:52:20 +1100 From: Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au> To: Tom Hines <tomhines2@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 40upgrade kit Message-ID: <20001101205220.A387@vimutti.welearn.com.au> In-Reply-To: <F84endQxwZc1R7SlNjD00002a2f@hotmail.com>; from tomhines2@hotmail.com on Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 07:58:25PM -0400 References: <F84endQxwZc1R7SlNjD00002a2f@hotmail.com>
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On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 07:58:25PM -0400, Tom Hines wrote: > > >Hi. Relative newbie here. I was browsing the freebsd web site the other > >day and noticed the section on upgrade kits at > >http://www.freebsd.org/ports/. Because I run 4.0-RELEASE, I installed the > >4.0 to 4-stable upgrade kit, and now I can't install any ports. It fails > >on > >fetch with the message "bad system call". I noticed that one of the files > >upgraded by the kit was libc.so, which is a symlink that was pointing to > >libc.so.3 and now points to the new libc.so.4. I suspect that might be the > >problem. > > > >I tried deleting the package with pkg_delete, but got a message saying that > >was impossible because it would render my system useless. What can I do? > >Can I just point libc.so back to libc.so.3? I vaguely recall a utility to > >do such things called ldd or something but I can't remember. > > Whoa. It's much worse than I thought. Now none of my devices work. > They're either not found or not configured. What happened? I need to > reverse that upgrade kit, but it deleted my old libc.so.3. Please help. I don't know if you've received or still need any more help with this, Tom (I don't follow freebsd-questions), but there seems to be a problem with that upgrade kit, which is being investigated. Keep your eye on the problem report at http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=21997 for any updates. Meanwhile, having installed this package to two machines myself today, and losing most of their connection to the outside world in the process, I would caution anyone else not to use 40upgrade.tgz it until the above URL gives the all clear. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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