From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 17 06:41:16 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA13088 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 17 Oct 1998 06:41:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from awfulhak.org (awfulhak.force9.co.uk [195.166.136.63]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA13083 for ; Sat, 17 Oct 1998 06:41:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from woof.lan.awfulhak.org (root@woof.lan.awfulhak.org [172.16.0.7]) by awfulhak.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA03524; Sat, 17 Oct 1998 14:25:53 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from woof.lan.awfulhak.org (brian@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woof.lan.awfulhak.org (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id OAA10884; Sat, 17 Oct 1998 14:25:53 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@woof.lan.awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199810171325.OAA10884@woof.lan.awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Doug White cc: Eric Ken Lin , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help! I'm having ELF interpreter problems In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 16 Oct 1998 13:34:06 PDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 17 Oct 1998 14:25:53 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > On Wed, 14 Oct 1998, Eric Ken Lin wrote: > > > Today, I installed some packages from the ports collection (i.e. mtools, > > xmascot), but when I attempted to run any of them, I received the > > following error message each time: > > > > ELF interpreter /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1 not found > > > > and the program would immediately abort. I'm using the 2.2.5 release of > > FreeBSD & I've never had this problem before. How can I remedy this > > situation? If I need to download a library from the Net, where can I > > obtain it? > > Don't download ports from ports/, use ports-stable/. > > The ports/ ports are ELFed for 3.0. They should continue to work for pre-3.0-RELEASE systems though. > Doug White > Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org -- Brian , , Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour.... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message