From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 4 04:34:56 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5978C16A4CE for ; Tue, 4 Jan 2005 04:34:56 +0000 (GMT) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (CPE0050040655c8-CM00111ae02aac.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com [69.199.47.57]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19E2343D1F for ; Tue, 4 Jan 2005 04:34:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 4361651354; Mon, 3 Jan 2005 20:35:10 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2005 20:35:10 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway To: Eric Anderson Message-ID: <20050104043510.GA56556@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <41DA0AB8.3080400@centtech.com> <20050104041859.GA56168@xor.obsecurity.org> <41DA1B2B.5080504@centtech.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="82I3+IH0IqGh5yIs" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <41DA1B2B.5080504@centtech.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org cc: Kris Kennaway Subject: Re: portupgrade system destruction? X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2005 04:34:56 -0000 --82I3+IH0IqGh5yIs Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 10:27:23PM -0600, Eric Anderson wrote: > Kris Kennaway wrote: > >On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 09:17:12PM -0600, Eric Anderson wrote: > > > >>I have a few dedicated servers at a hosting company (about 3 hours driv= e=20 > >>time away). On one of the systems I ran a 'portupgrade -arR' this=20 > >>morning, and then disconnected (I ran it in a screen session). About an= =20 > >>hour later, I realized I could not log in anymore via ssh. Seems that = I=20 > >>can connect, but my passwords fail (permission denied). I can't FTP in= ,=20 > >>or check mail with any username/password combos. Even my preshared SSH= =20 > >>keys do not work. When connecting via POP, I get this message: > >> > >>Connected to hostname. > >>Escape character is '^]'. > >>/usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libc-client4.so.8" not found > >>Connection closed by foreign host. > >> > >>Can anyone help me figure out what may have gone wrong? > > > > > >Probably you're 1) using an ssh port instead of the base system > >version, and 2) the portupgrade stalled or exited somewhere in between > >updating a library it depends on and updating the port itself (ditto > >for pop). System upgrades can be dangerous when you don't have a > >fallback plan :-) >=20 > Is ssh a port by default in 4.10? I thought it was in the base os.. How= =20 > would that explain my ftp access problems too? Seems like they would=20 > not be tied.. No. Something unexpected has clearly happened..maybe your system ran out of swap space? > Any ideas on what 'libc-client4.so.8' is installed from? Maybe that=20 > would help me find the culprit port. The cclient port, but it's only used for pop/imap and isn't likely to be the direct cause of your problems, only collateral damage. Kris --82I3+IH0IqGh5yIs Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFB2hz9Wry0BWjoQKURArZeAKD3h5S5Wh2/mJVkqtFNILFsXvZKjgCgrG8v nXCFrYHKcnfJD04SxOgIaeg= =QMGV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --82I3+IH0IqGh5yIs--