Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 19:58:25 EDT From: "Tom Hines" <tomhines2@hotmail.com> To: tomhines2@hotmail.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 40upgrade kit Message-ID: <F84endQxwZc1R7SlNjD00002a2f@hotmail.com>
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Whoa. It's much worse than I thought. Now none of my devices work. They're either not found or not configured. What happened? I need to reverse that upgrade kit, but it deleted my old libc.so.3. Please help. tom >From: "Tom Hines" <tomhines2@hotmail.com> >To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >Subject: 40upgrade kit >Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 15:53:38 EDT > >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 _________________________________________________________________________ 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
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