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To: "Tom Hines" <tomhines2@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: 40upgrade kit
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Tom Hines writes:
> Whoa.  It's much worse than I thought.  Now none of my devices work.  
> They're either not found or not configured.  What happened?  I need to 
> reverse that upgrade kit, but it deleted my old libc.so.3.  Please help.

Well, the obvious solution is to boot your disaster recovery disk and
restore it from the backup. Failing that, there should be a copy of
libc.so.3 on the fixit disk in /usr/lib/.

But it sounds like much worse things are wrong - hardware problems, or
possibly a disk in really, really sad shape. Check the log files for
hardware errors, and contemplate restoring from backup or
reinstalling.

	<mike

> tom
> 
> 
> >From: "Tom Hines" <tomhines2@hotmail.com>
> >To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> >Subject: 40upgrade kit
> >Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 15:53:38 EDT
> >
> >Hi.  Relative newbie here.  I was browsing the freebsd web site the other
> >day and noticed the section on upgrade kits at
> >http://www.freebsd.org/ports/.  Because I run 4.0-RELEASE, I installed the
> >4.0 to 4-stable upgrade kit, and now I can't install any ports.  It fails 
> >on
> >fetch with the message "bad system call".  I noticed that one of the files
> >upgraded by the kit was libc.so, which is a symlink that was pointing to
> >libc.so.3 and now points to the new libc.so.4.  I suspect that might be the
> >problem.
> >
> >I tried deleting the package with pkg_delete, but got a message saying that
> >was impossible because it would render my system useless.  What can I do?
> >Can I just point libc.so back to libc.so.3?  I vaguely recall a utility to
> >do such things called ldd or something but I can't remember.
> >
> >tia,
> >tom
> >
> >
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