From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 5 02:33:34 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 56EDE16A4CE for ; Wed, 5 Jan 2005 02:33:34 +0000 (GMT) Received: from otter3.centtech.com (moat3.centtech.com [207.200.51.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C57E43D1F for ; Wed, 5 Jan 2005 02:33:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from [192.168.42.23] (andersonbox3.centtech.com [192.168.42.23]) by otter3.centtech.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id j052XVOJ034443; Tue, 4 Jan 2005 20:33:31 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Message-ID: <41DB51F3.4010706@centtech.com> Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2005 20:33:23 -0600 From: Eric Anderson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041110 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kris Kennaway References: <41DA0AB8.3080400@centtech.com> <20050104041859.GA56168@xor.obsecurity.org> <41DA1B2B.5080504@centtech.com> <20050104043510.GA56556@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20050104043510.GA56556@xor.obsecurity.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: portupgrade system destruction? SOLVED 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: Wed, 05 Jan 2005 02:33:34 -0000 Kris Kennaway wrote: [..snip..] >>>>I have a few dedicated servers at a hosting company (about 3 hours drive >>>>time away). On one of the systems I ran a 'portupgrade -arR' this >>>>morning, and then disconnected (I ran it in a screen session). About an >>>>hour later, I realized I could not log in anymore via ssh. Seems that I >>>>can connect, but my passwords fail (permission denied). I can't FTP in, >>>>or check mail with any username/password combos. Even my preshared SSH >>>>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 :-) >> >>Is ssh a port by default in 4.10? I thought it was in the base os.. How >>would that explain my ftp access problems too? Seems like they would >>not be tied.. > > > No. Something unexpected has clearly happened..maybe your system ran > out of swap space? For those that are curious - what happened was the night before, I installed a new port, but needed to change $PREFIX to a user's home area to set the port up in that particular spot. As expected, that went uneventfully. The next morning, I decided to do a portupgrade - and promptly went about cvsupping my ports, bla bla, and then doing a portupgrage -arR. However - I never unset the $PREFIX variable, so each port was being removed from the main system area, then the new port was being installed in a users' home area. Bash was one of the first to be done, which explains the login errors (/usr/local/bin/bash was removed from /etc/shells, and it was replaced with /home/username/usr/local....bash, so my shell in the passwd file no longer was in /etc/shells file). The portupgrade continued until some point when it basically killed itself off. I'm now recovering pieces of the installed packages. :) Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Sr. Systems Administrator Centaur Technology When in doubt, mumble; when in trouble, delegate; when in charge, ponder ------------------------------------------------------------------------