From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 19 12:53:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (f176.law9.hotmail.com [64.4.9.176]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30A7537B479 for ; Thu, 19 Oct 2000 12:53:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Thu, 19 Oct 2000 12:53:38 -0700 Received: from 207.91.82.137 by lw9fd.law9.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Thu, 19 Oct 2000 19:53:38 GMT X-Originating-IP: [207.91.82.137] From: "Tom Hines" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: 40upgrade kit Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 15:53:38 EDT Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 19 Oct 2000 19:53:38.0097 (UTC) FILETIME=[45C29A10:01C03A06] Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi. Relative newbie here. I was browsing the freebsd web site the other day and noticed the section on upgrade kits at http://www.freebsd.org/ports/. Because I run 4.0-RELEASE, I installed the 4.0 to 4-stable upgrade kit, and now I can't install any ports. It fails on fetch with the message "bad system call". I noticed that one of the files upgraded by the kit was libc.so, which is a symlink that was pointing to libc.so.3 and now points to the new libc.so.4. I suspect that might be the problem. I tried deleting the package with pkg_delete, but got a message saying that was impossible because it would render my system useless. What can I do? Can I just point libc.so back to libc.so.3? I vaguely recall a utility to do such things called ldd or something but I can't remember. tia, tom _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message