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Date:      Tue, 15 Aug 2006 15:58:59 -0500
From:      "Michael Gardner" <gardnermj@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Ldconfig mistake renders system unbootable?
Message-ID:  <d920be5d0608151358vf22dcd8jde97b39db6b9ad93@mail.gmail.com>

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I was trying to get a Linux binary to run
(http://filter24.org/seq24/), and was having problems with linking, so
I messed around with ldconfig a bit and somehow ended up breaking my
system completely. The command I ran before everything broke was
"ldconfig -elf /usr/compat/linux/lib", which I now realize was not at
all what I wanted to do. Now when I try to boot FreeBSD, even in
single user mode, I get the folowing:

libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Undefined symbol "__stdoutp" referenced from COPY
relocation in -sh
libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Undefined symbol "__stdoutp" referenced from COPY
relocation in sh

It then asks me for the location of my shell, but keeps giving the
errors above no matter which shell I choose (/bin/sh being the obvious
one).

I'm running FreeBSD 6.1 (and have been since it came out, so this
shouldn't have anything to do with upgrading). I know I did something
monumentally dumb, but how can I fix things?

-Michael



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