Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 20:34:52 -0400 (EDT) From: "Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET" <ml@t-b-o-h.net> To: kris@obsecurity.org (Kris Kennaway) Cc: "Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET" <ml@t-b-o-h.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: Fatal error 'Spinlock called when not threaded.' Message-ID: <200610270034.k9R0YqLt037766@himinbjorg.tucs-beachin-obx-house.com> In-Reply-To: <20061026231733.GA68808@xor.obsecurity.org>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
> On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 06:33:09PM -0400, Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET wrote: > > Hi, > >=20 > > Thanks... Any idea where to look for the answer? I did find > > references, but to "UPDATING" that didn't exist. Wondered how all=20 > > of a sudden items I haven't recompiled in a while started having > > it. > > You had old packages linked against an old version of the library from > a previous revision of FreeBSD, and they only broke when your recent > update changed one of them to link to both versions. > FreeBSD himinbjorg.tucs-beachin-obx-house.com 5.5-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 5.5-RELEASE-p2 #0: Tue Jun 20 15:27:48 EDT 2006 root@himinbjorg.tucs-beachin-obx-house.com:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/HIMINBJORG53noagp i386 As you see, I haven't updated my base OS in 4 months. > > portupgrade -fa is the most convenient way to solve this. > That scares me to no ever loving end. I usually end up with issues. I'm doing a "portupgrade -rf pkg-config\*" for the 3rd time right now. It hasn't worked properly the other 2 times. Some packages had fetch errors, and one had uninstall issues. Whenever I've done an upgrade before, ruby and perl usually end up broken pretty bad. Thanks, Tuc
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?200610270034.k9R0YqLt037766>