From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 7 13:47:31 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from athserv.otenet.gr (athserv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D2C137B503 for ; Sat, 7 Oct 2000 13:47:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-a152.otenet.gr [212.205.215.152]) by athserv.otenet.gr (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id e97KlDL20795; Sat, 7 Oct 2000 23:47:14 +0300 (EET DST) Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e97DADd02064; Sat, 7 Oct 2000 16:10:13 +0300 (EEST) Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2000 16:10:13 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: johnt Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ELF question Message-ID: <20001007161013.B700@hades.hell.gr> References: <004701c02fe4$99d29e60$0200a8c0@Eli> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: <004701c02fe4$99d29e60$0200a8c0@Eli>; from johnt@appliedinterconnect.com on Fri, Oct 06, 2000 at 03:27:23PM -0700 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 3A 75 52 EB F1 58 56 0D - C5 B8 21 B6 1B 5E 4A C2 X-URL: http://students.ceid.upatras.gr/~keramida/index.html Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Oct 06, 2000 at 03:27:23PM -0700, johnt wrote: > > I am trying to fix this system that got kinda dumped on me... > apparently the elf interpreter is missing. > > ELF interpreter /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1 not found > > how on earth do I fix this? > it doesn't want to allow me to do near anything. copy ld-elf.so.1 from a machine that has the same sources/world :-) my ld-elf.so.1 is approx 75 Kb, and mounting a floppy with the binary on it should not be hard. the trick is that you have to find a way to restore ld-elf.so.1 by using only statically compiled binaries, i.e. those in /bin and /sbin. -- Giorgos Keramidas, < keramida @ ceid . upatras . gr > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message