Date: Fri, 17 May 2013 21:49:20 -0500 From: Michael Gass <mgass@csbsju.edu> To: Jeremy Chadwick <jdc@koitsu.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Command line not responding Message-ID: <20130518024920.GA32753@csbsju.edu> In-Reply-To: <20130517185513.GA88287@icarus.home.lan> References: <20130517175653.GA15498@csbsju.edu> <20130517185513.GA88287@icarus.home.lan>
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On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 11:55:13AM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
> On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 12:56:53PM -0500, Michael Gass wrote:
> > Running 9.0-Stable on an i386.
> >
> > Whenever I type a command at the prompt I get
> > the output
> >
> > /usr/local/lib/libintl.so.9: Undefined symbol "_ThreadRuneLocale"
> >
> > and nothing else - the command will not run. Just the
> > above output. Commands like "ls" and "exit" work, but not much
> > else. This happends whether I am logged in a user or as root.
> > Cannot even halt the system from the command line.
> >
> > Started to happen after trying to update the freetype2 port.
> > Got an error msg while updating libXft-2.1.14. From that point
> > on I cannot use the command line.
> >
> > I have no idea what to try. Any suggestions.
>
> First provide the contents of /etc/make.conf and /etc/src.conf.
>
Thanks for getting back to me. Here are the contents of the two
files. I rebuilt the kernel last fall and have updated ports
fairly regularly since. Things have worked fine until today when
I tried to update ports.
# File: make.conf
# The ? in the below is for buildworld
CPUTYPE?=pentium2
# Uncomment the below for general builds.
CFLAGS= -O -pipe
# Uncomment the below for kernel builds.
# COPTFLAGS= -O -pipe
NO_PROFILE=true
INSTALL_NODEBUG=true
#WITHOUT_DILLO_IPV6=yes
#WITH_DILLO_DLGUI=yes
# added by use.perl 2013-05-17 11:04:30
PERL_VERSION=5.12.4
# File: src.conf
WITHOUT_PROFILE=true
WITHOUT_BLUETOOTH=true
> The _ThreadRuneLocale thing has come up before, but on -CURRENT circa
> early 2012. It happened to a user when trying to build kernel (really)
> and that user was tinkering about in make.conf and src.conf heavily,
> messing with Clang. I personally remove Clang from my systems entirely
> for many reasons, by simply doing WITHOUT_CLANG=true in src.conf and
> thus rely entirely on gcc.
>
> My recommendation, and this isn't going to make you happy:
>
I may do this if I cannot get things to work otherwise. I appreciate the
advice.
> Boot into single-user, mount your filesystems, and try commands there,
> in hopes that they work. If they do:
>
> pkg_delete -a -f
> cp -pR /usr/local /usr/local.old
> rm -fr /usr/local/*
> reboot
>
> Boot into multi-user, log in, and things should be fine. Next:
>
> rm -fr /var/db/ports/*
> rm -fr /usr/ports/distfiles/*
> find /usr/ports -type d -name "work" -exec rm -fr {} \;
>
> Now begin rebuilding your ports. If you prefer to use packages, go
> right ahead, given that this was just announced a few days ago:
>
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-announce/2013-May/001476.html
>
> But I tend to build everything from source, barring large-ish packages
> (things like cmake, python27, perl) which I pkg_add -r.
>
> My attitude has always been when something catastrophic impacts a very
> large number of commands (particularly a library with a missing symbol
> that a very large number of programs link to), start fresh. It's
> not worth scrambling around with leftover cruft in place that could
> appear months later and make you say "I thought I fixed that!", where
> you then have to follow up to a thread months old and admit "actually
> there is more breakage..."
>
> Footnote: I am likely to get a large amount of backlash for proposing
> the above, with claims that will equate it to fixing a minor cut by
> amputating the entire limb. My response to such: that's nice.
>
> --
> | Jeremy Chadwick jdc@koitsu.org |
> | UNIX Systems Administrator http://jdc.koitsu.org/ |
> | Mountain View, CA, US |
> | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP 4BD6C0CB |
--
Michael Gass
mgass@csbsju.edu
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