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Date:      Tue, 4 Mar 2008 16:46:12 -0500
From:      Dimitri Yioulos <dyioulos@firstbhph.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Lib Errors After 6.3 - 7 Update
Message-ID:  <200803041646.13475.dyioulos@firstbhph.com>
In-Reply-To: <47CDBD36.4040103@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <284486.87640.qm@web25010.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> <200803041616.45633.dyioulos@firstbhph.com> <47CDBD36.4040103@FreeBSD.org>

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On Tuesday 04 March 2008 4:20 pm, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> Dimitri Yioulos wrote:
> > On Tuesday 04 March 2008 3:32 pm, Robert Davison wrote:
> >> I've tried to update 6.3 to 7 using the sh freebsd-update.sh -f
> >> freebsd-update.conf -r 7.0-RELEASE upgrade process. I thought all had
> >> gone well untill I started getting lib-XXX.so4 missing file here and
> >> libphp.so missing there. I'm guessing that the update process has
> >> deleatd some shared libararies which are still required.
> >>
> >> I have the files in question, but instead of XXX.so.4, the file is
> >> called XXX.so.5
> >>
> >> I followed the instructions to the 'T' but nothing seems to work i.e
> >> MailScanner, apache etc.
> >>
> >> I've tried portupgrade -af to see if I can link the ports to the new lib
> >> files, but alas nothing.
> >>
> >> Anyone got any ideas??
> >
> > Perhaps someone has a better suggestion for you, but I had a similar
> > issue with regard to installing VMware Tools.  In my case, I symlinked
> > libc.so.5 linked to libc.so.6, and the VMware Tools installation
> > proceeded.
>
> Ah yes, I forgot about bogus advice option 2 :-)
>
> Kris
> _______________________________________________

As I said, someone might have a better suggestion, as I'm a relative noob.  My 
point was to try symlinking your needed library file to that which you find 
on your system.  I'd think it'd be worth a try.  But, hey, if it's bogus 
advice (option 2  :-)  ), then best of luck.

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