Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 21:43:58 -0500 From: "Sagara Wijetunga" <sagara@tomahawk.com.sg> To: Victor Starenky <freebsd@victorstar.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Server screwed up (/lib/libc.so.7: Undefined symbol "_nsdispatch") Message-ID: <20090714024358.8095.qmail@us1.tomahawkonline.net> In-Reply-To: <ad0a1bae0907132018r257fd4e8m77178b29a626a479@mail.gmail.com> References: <ad0a1bae0907132018r257fd4e8m77178b29a626a479@mail.gmail.com>
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Victor Starenky writes: > Hi guys, > I was running FreeBSD server at home for a few years on an old box for mail, > some web and ftp etc. I've been through a number of upgrades even though > it's not easy with the box as old as this one (PII 350). Right now I'm at > 7.0 Release. > Now last weekend something's screwed up there pretty badly and machine is > pretty much unusable. > The sympthom is that pretty much any command results in the following error: > /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: /lib/libc.so.7: Undefined symbol "_nsdispatch" > Specifically this is thrown when trying to login (after entering login name) > on the console, ssh, ftp. > This is also thrown for "fetch"or for "ls -l" (plain ls works). > So I'm lucky to have one root session on the console as I can't login at any > other... > Most recent thing that might have something to do with it would be an > (unsuccessful) attempt to portupgrade cups-base. This failed with the error > message of wrong cups client. Now this is not new and I have a number of > ports that wouldn't upgrade - cups-base, apache for example. But before > portupgrade would fail without affecting the system. Same cups-base failed > before without any side effects. > As I said this might have nothing to do with the errors I'm getting, just > most recent my actions. > So currently server is not usable - it won't even accept mail (Currier > server) with the same error message. > I tried portupgrade bash but portupgrade itslef also fails with the same > message. I do have one mean of getting new files there through mounted smb > directory. I've tried putting all new bash files into > /usr/ports/distfiles/bash but portupgrade still fails (just a bit further > now). > I ran pkg_libchk which shows a bunch of missing libraries, mostly for > compat4x-i386-5.3_9 but for example courier also misses one: > courier-0.54.0: /usr/local/libexec/filters/perlfilter misses libperl.so > At this point I think I'm lost. I'd really rather avoid complete reinstall > of the server if possible. > I would greatly appreciate any help troubleshooting the libraries. Still > hope there is something that can be done other than reinstall. > Thanks in advance! > Victor Hi Victor What you could do is put it back what is missing/damaged using an live FreeBSD CD and get the base system to work again without any GUI. Regards Sagara
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