From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 14 03:42:34 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E27B01065675 for ; Tue, 14 Jul 2009 03:42:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pervect@gmail.com) Received: from mail-gx0-f217.google.com (mail-gx0-f217.google.com [209.85.217.217]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8ED838FC16 for ; Tue, 14 Jul 2009 03:42:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pervect@gmail.com) Received: by gxk17 with SMTP id 17so3836258gxk.19 for ; Mon, 13 Jul 2009 20:42:33 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:received:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=Za0/py2LYq7zcVg79CVnHqWhlLFOCBRa7LEYwbcW5Ng=; b=ulphogmKV5D09q1pBSuQmq9XZy46NxNUDFzQJu+X9JJBq95pmsuYKNx46G4TH4qRJS 7LatXCX6qSAkTghx/vMgC6fCKhWHSLHhg3ceIvP0kwaUuFkY9M3c1nIbeLAgO83WYHDe kvyQKJ7z/0jx7H90W4RDuyKlSHkFnQlBlN6qk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject :from:to:content-type; b=FaTUyFWTZH+9V71TkPhr/dwqC5AWLZJFlG29eFAtsRZHSOJm9lO32GgwVArsW1A7g0 wZdzweK6bq3ShROs69ZDrorZyAHdfRg8b6cm6OTfDdLF+O3ZsWGGj9jk0CFm/nDEcUZK xLBhiWk6wNRx0MkYZ270Aoa3lvrGJknrHd+38= MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: pervect@gmail.com Received: by 10.231.13.201 with SMTP id d9mr1347231iba.35.1247541490048; Mon, 13 Jul 2009 20:18:10 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 23:18:10 -0400 X-Google-Sender-Auth: d9f0770b7dfb5919 Message-ID: From: Victor Starenky To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Server screwed up (/lib/libc.so.7: Undefined symbol "_nsdispatch") X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 03:42:35 -0000 Hi guys, I was running FreeBSD server at home for a few years on an old box for mail, some web and ftp etc. I've been through a number of upgrades even though it's not easy with the box as old as this one (PII 350). Right now I'm at 7.0 Release. Now last weekend something's screwed up there pretty badly and machine is pretty much unusable. The sympthom is that pretty much any command results in the following error: /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: /lib/libc.so.7: Undefined symbol "_nsdispatch" Specifically this is thrown when trying to login (after entering login name) on the console, ssh, ftp. This is also thrown for "fetch"or for "ls -l" (plain ls works). So I'm lucky to have one root session on the console as I can't login at any other... Most recent thing that might have something to do with it would be an (unsuccessful) attempt to portupgrade cups-base. This failed with the error message of wrong cups client. Now this is not new and I have a number of ports that wouldn't upgrade - cups-base, apache for example. But before portupgrade would fail without affecting the system. Same cups-base failed before without any side effects. As I said this might have nothing to do with the errors I'm getting, just most recent my actions. So currently server is not usable - it won't even accept mail (Currier server) with the same error message. I tried portupgrade bash but portupgrade itslef also fails with the same message. I do have one mean of getting new files there through mounted smb directory. I've tried putting all new bash files into /usr/ports/distfiles/bash but portupgrade still fails (just a bit further now). I ran pkg_libchk which shows a bunch of missing libraries, mostly for compat4x-i386-5.3_9 but for example courier also misses one: courier-0.54.0: /usr/local/libexec/filters/perlfilter misses libperl.so At this point I think I'm lost. I'd really rather avoid complete reinstall of the server if possible. I would greatly appreciate any help troubleshooting the libraries. Still hope there is something that can be done other than reinstall. Thanks in advance! Victor