From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 23 12:10:33 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B753916A4CE; Tue, 23 Dec 2003 12:10:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from seven.Alameda.net (seven.alameda.net [64.81.53.71]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85F7F43D1D; Tue, 23 Dec 2003 12:09:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ulf@Alameda.net) Received: by seven.Alameda.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 5621A3A213; Tue, 23 Dec 2003 12:09:56 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 12:09:56 -0800 From: Ulf Zimmermann To: Peter Leftwich Message-ID: <20031223200955.GM16418@seven.alameda.net> References: <20031223012430.S33599@rocket.alienwebshop.com> <20031223103823.GC34651@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> <47778.63.109.229.13.1072206794.squirrel@webmail.alienwebshop.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <47778.63.109.229.13.1072206794.squirrel@webmail.alienwebshop.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Organization: Alameda Networks, Inc. X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE-p5 cc: FreeBSD-Questions@freebsd.org cc: www@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: missing /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1 ... not found X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: ulf@Alameda.net List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 20:10:33 -0000 ld-elf.so.1 should also be on the first CD. Its just inside the split tar.gz files which make up the base of FreeBSD. Check out the bin/ directory on the cd, all the bin.[a-z][a-z] files are a split of a large tar.gz, and that includes the ld-elf.so.1 On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 11:13:14AM -0800, Peter Leftwich wrote: > Matthew Seaman kindly transmitted: > > On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 01:32:07AM -0500, Peter Leftwich wrote: > > > What should a user do if their, uhm, /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1 > > > file is missing on 4.7-RELEASE? Can said user `touch > > > /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1` as a decent fix? Or mount their drive > > > from another OS and copy over a friend's or a web-hosted > > > ld-elf.so.1 file? Or could I, I mean my friend, use some of the > > > contents of "src/" on a 4.7-RELEASE CD-R to recreate (via > > > compiling) this needed file?? Please help. It could be your > > > gift to me. > > Hello Matthew, Fbsd-Q's and WWW server peoplefolk. > > > Without ld-elf.so.1 you won't be able to start up any executable > > that uses shared libraries... You might find a copy in > > I noticed! *funnyface* Just joking around. Thanks for the details. > > > /usr/obj/usr/src/libexec/rtld-elf/ld-elf.so.1 if you've ever built > > world on that machine, and there's a statically linked version of > > cp(1) in /bin. Otherwise, yes: the live filesystem CD (Disk 2) > > will have a copy or you can extract your drive and mount it in > > another machine. > > REQUEST: Could one of the *.freebsd.org webmasters or listserv > admins please post the ld-elf.so.1 file from 4.7-RELEASE? It could > go up (officially) to > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/4.7-RELEASE/usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1 > > <<>> > > I only have the first CD-R and do not have time to download the 2nd > CD-R's ISO just for the one file... 2:-) > > > Let this be a lesson to your friend not to be too hair > > triggered on the delete key... > > Best way to learn. Well, maybe not best; but I certainly have > learned a TON this way, the rootly way. *smiles* > > > Cheers, > > Matthew > > Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The > > Paddocks > > Savill Way > > PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow > > Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 > > 1TH UK > > ASIDE: {It will be neat when one day there's an Internet standard > for www.website.com/pgpkey and > www.website.com/software/name_here/md5 and > www.website.com/hostname_here/sshkey - oh and > https://www.website.com/trusted.htm or something like that.} ;) > > -- > Peter Leftwich, President & Founder > Video2Video Services > Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039, USA > http://Www.Video2Video.Com > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-www@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-www > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-www-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- Regards, Ulf. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Ulf Zimmermann, 1525 Pacific Ave., Alameda, CA-94501, #: 510-865-0204 You can find my resume at: http://seven.Alameda.net/~ulf/resume.html