From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 6 19:26:04 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7F0D37B401 for ; Sun, 6 Apr 2003 19:26:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lerami.lerctr.org (lerami.lerctr.org [207.158.72.11]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E273B43FAF for ; Sun, 6 Apr 2003 19:26:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ler@lerctr.org) Received: from lerlaptop.lerctr.org (lerlaptop.lerctr.org [207.158.72.14]) (authenticated bits=0)h372PwYC012388; Sun, 6 Apr 2003 21:25:59 -0500 (CDT) Date: Sun, 06 Apr 2003 21:25:58 -0500 From: Larry Rosenman To: Richard Tobin , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <167540000.1049682358@lerlaptop.lerctr.org> In-Reply-To: <200304070224.DAA13330@sorley.cogsci.ed.ac.uk> References: <200304070224.DAA13330@sorley.cogsci.ed.ac.uk> X-Mailer: Mulberry/3.0.3 (Linux/x86) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-milter (http://amavis.org/) Subject: Re: __stderrp problem after 4.8 binary upgrade X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2003 02:26:05 -0000 --On Monday, April 07, 2003 03:24:31 +0100 Richard Tobin wrote: >> As to why the binary upgrade didn't upgrade, I'm not sure. > > The problem turns out to be not that the upgrade did not put a new > libc.so.3 in /usr/lib/compat - it did - but that there was an old > libc.so.3 in /usr/lib. I don't know why it was there: it's dated Dec > 28 1999 and should presumably have been removed many releases ago. > > (This machine has been continously upgraded since FreeBSD 1.1, along > with almost all its hardware being replaced of course, so there are > probably lots of odd files lying around.) Good. At least we know WHAT happened. As to removing files, I don't think that binary upgrades do that, but, as I said, I don't know. My laptop started out at 4.5. (It's a year old). Thanks for the follow-up. LER > > -- Richard -- Larry Rosenman http://www.lerctr.org/~ler Phone: +1 972-414-9812 E-Mail: ler@lerctr.org US Mail: 1905 Steamboat Springs Drive, Garland, TX 75044-6749