Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2000 13:50:26 EST From: "Tom Hines" <tomhines2@hotmail.com> To: sue@welearn.com.au Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 40upgrade kit Message-ID: <F25aLI9mK6PYzDabigP0000572c@hotmail.com>
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Hi Sue. After I settled down, I remembered that I have an install CD. I just ran /stand/sysinstall and reinstalled the bin section only. That did the trick. I don't know what the deal was with my devices. They were fine after a reboot, even before the reinstall. I suspect I may have a hardware problem because now my dual-boot Windows is acting up. But the important thing is that FreeBSD is working again. I'm getting ready to upgrade to STABLE. I hope that goes well. Thanks for the info. Tom >From: Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au> >To: Tom Hines <tomhines2@hotmail.com> >CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >Subject: Re: 40upgrade kit >Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2000 20:52:20 +1100 > > >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. > > > _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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