Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 03:16:25 +0000 (UTC) From: David J Brooks <freysman@comcast.net> To: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@acm.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: system crash during make installworld Message-ID: <858871272.959687.1298344585156.JavaMail.root@sz0078a.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <328879293.959596.1298344492387.JavaMail.root@sz0078a.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net>
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>>On 2011-Feb-21 08:04:00 +0000, David J Brooks <freysman@comcast.net> wrote: >>As the subject suggests, my laptop crashed during make installworld. >>The new kernel boots, but the ELF interpreter is not found and I >>cannot get to a single user prompt. What is the least painful way to >>proceed? > >My first suggestion would be to boot the previous kernel. If that doesn't >help, try specifying /rescue/sh as the single-user shell.> > >If neither of those work, please specify the exact error message you >get and the point where you get it (if you don't have a serial console >available, post a link to picture of the screen showing the issue). I was able to boot the old kernel, but that didn't seem to help. Using /rescue/sh got me a usable prompt, and I was able to do a 'mount -a -t ufs' which got my hopes up, but trying to run 'make installworld' still gives me this: ELF interpreter /libexec/ld-elf.so.1 not found Abort trap I looked in /libexec and found ld-elf.so.1 and ld-elf.so.1.old I tried copying ld-elf.so.1 to ld-elf-so.1.new and .old to ld-elf.so.1 and rebooting the old kernel in hopes that it would work. No joy. Next I made a copy of the 8.2-RC# install disk and tried to do an upgrade in place. It was unable to backup /etc to /var/tmp/etc due to: ELF interpreter /libexec/ld-elf.so.1 not found Abort trap .. again. This happens pretty much anytime I try to execute a command that does not come from /rescue I really rather not do a clean install and lose all my configuration data, but it's increasingly looking like that may be my only option. David
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