Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 17:41:29 -0400 (EDT) From: "Jonathan Noack" <noackjr@alumni.rice.edu> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: shooting oneself in the foot with "ldconfig -v" Message-ID: <64910.70.130.237.37.1192052489.squirrel@www.noacks.org>
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Hey folks,
I'm running 6.2-p8 and was trying to clean up my "portsclean -L" output
today. It was reporting tons of duplicate libraries in /usr/X11R6 and
/usr/local even though X11R6 is an alias to /usr/local. I tracked the
problem to portclean's use of `ldconfig -elf -r` which was reporting
directories and libraries in /usr/X11R6. I read the ldconfig manpage in
an attempt to understand more and saw this line:
-v Switch on verbose mode.
I told myself, "Self, the '-v' option may allow you to determine what's
going on. It can't help knowing more!" Alas, the "-v" option doesn't
behave as advertised. Instead it clears the shared library cache
(reference: http://www.parsed.org/tip/231/). An empty shared library
cache means all dynamically-linked programs fail. This has the wonderful
side-effect of preventing me from logging into the box to fix it (I logged
off before I figured this out). "Reboot and all will be well," you say?
Yes, on boot /etc/rc.d/ldconfig is run and it builds the shared library
cache. Unfortunately, the box is 1,000 miles away in my apartment. :(
This brings me to the question:
Is the "-v" option broken or is the documentation out of date?
Thanks,
-Jon
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