From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 4 22:09:35 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D718A1065676 for ; Tue, 4 Mar 2008 22:09:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rob_27_preston@yahoo.co.uk) Received: from web25005.mail.ukl.yahoo.com (web25005.mail.ukl.yahoo.com [217.146.183.108]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 663AF8FC21 for ; Tue, 4 Mar 2008 22:09:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rob_27_preston@yahoo.co.uk) Received: (qmail 35226 invoked by uid 60001); 4 Mar 2008 22:09:33 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.co.uk; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-ID; b=gBOZCxcrLQspjYdWOyrB8GkqK0NZ6JfA3TjsfikdFYcWUgCTjdfTaRfW9ssmQ2SFUNkLp3sYgDj+H20GVmgP1Of1VUjVLCt6zEKaf4g7TxRiI+YuhLTbdsMFoM78x8aRndtkSN+3gSPTyDMywG4pYRsQfQg8va1XULAB6Yzv/uY=; X-YMail-OSG: sxDMrcIVM1nVAR0iJOphxsZqXwP6hsjiXZOnfC.L2irVN5IToDpN9TDPxrHNYmX3AR_jKLltL6KAoS8XuzWvGK3uaDVxf4pwypld5ZV8CW5Iu7fYDCiu8k6hqccKTx6TgbL4YNY- Received: from [83.67.114.101] by web25005.mail.ukl.yahoo.com via HTTP; Tue, 04 Mar 2008 22:09:33 GMT Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2008 22:09:33 +0000 (GMT) From: Robert Davison To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <200803041700.07757.dyioulos@firstbhph.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <876031.32502.qm@web25005.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Re: Lib Errors After 6.3 - 7 Update X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2008 22:09:35 -0000 Thanks for the quick replies, but isnt there a way of just rebuilding world or by using portupgrade to align the files ? Dimitri Yioulos wrote: On Tuesday 04 March 2008 4:53 pm, Kris Kennaway wrote: > Dimitri Yioulos wrote: > > 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. > > The reason it's bogus is because we change library versions for good > reason: they are incompatible. > > Sometimes they are incompatible in obvious ways, sometimes in subtle > ways. If you need libc.so.5 to run a FreeBSD 5.x binary, install the > compat5x port. That is not the solution for the OP though, because at > this point he has binaries with an inconsistent set of libraries that > needs to be fixed by moving them all to 7.0. > > Kris > _______________________________________________ Accepted. Thanks for the edification. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" --------------------------------- Sent from Yahoo! Mail. A Smarter Inbox.