From owner-freebsd-current Wed May 14 20:29:30 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id UAA25213 for current-outgoing; Wed, 14 May 1997 20:29:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from parkplace.cet.co.jp (parkplace.cet.co.jp [202.32.64.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA25208 for ; Wed, 14 May 1997 20:29:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (michaelh@localhost) by parkplace.cet.co.jp (8.8.5/CET-v2.1) with SMTP id DAA05087; Thu, 15 May 1997 03:28:53 GMT Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 12:28:53 +0900 (JST) From: Michael Hancock To: David Nugent cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RELENG_2_2 In-Reply-To: <199705141807.EAA01291@labs.usn.blaze.net.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 15 May 1997, David Nugent wrote: > > > Really? I'm running -current (for quite some time now), and didn't > > > bother yet to setup an /etc/login.conf. I should, i know. > > > > I didn't bother either, but after the Make World I could ssh to my machine > > but I couldn't su. I went to the office and then I couldn't login in > > either. > > > > I powered down; moved libutil.so.2.1 out of the way; and copied > > /usr/src/etc/login.* to /etc. > > Oh. Then "ldconfig -m /usr/lib" would also have fixed it without > creating /etc/login.conf. Some routines were added which the newly > installed binaries weren't finding in the old version from the > cache. I see, I would have had to do the powerdown in any case though since I couldn't su. BTW, I could have sworn that the behaviour of the SunOS ldconfig when used without any parameters was to refresh the cache leaving the paths in hints even if the LD_LIBRARY_PATH env var wasn't set. Ours clears the paths instead so I lose X11, /usr/local/lib, etc. Regards, Mike