Date: Sun, 06 Apr 2003 21:25:58 -0500 From: Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org> To: Richard Tobin <richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: __stderrp problem after 4.8 binary upgrade 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>
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--On Monday, April 07, 2003 03:24:31 +0100 Richard Tobin <richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> 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
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