From owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org Tue Jul 28 18:16:22 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 837CB9AD289 for ; Tue, 28 Jul 2015 18:16:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ian.freislich@capeaugusta.com) Received: from mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (mailman.ysv.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::50:5]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60D9FD6F for ; Tue, 28 Jul 2015 18:16:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ian.freislich@capeaugusta.com) Received: by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) id 5DC6D9AD288; Tue, 28 Jul 2015 18:16:22 +0000 (UTC) Delivered-To: current@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C6699AD287 for ; Tue, 28 Jul 2015 18:16:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ian.freislich@capeaugusta.com) Received: from mail-wi0-f171.google.com (mail-wi0-f171.google.com [209.85.212.171]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id EE68DD6E for ; Tue, 28 Jul 2015 18:16:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ian.freislich@capeaugusta.com) Received: by wicmv11 with SMTP id mv11so190128781wic.0 for ; Tue, 28 Jul 2015 11:16:19 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type :content-id:date:message-id; bh=aIqesXNQbTsFvN0a8Hcfd0Gz3zSEVQWPB4VCGGZaTX0=; b=GRQU+gbhl9KSJmtY/6ybw+U/9yVU/wCDn22Ktsxtw77VCn7uhV3ar59w8mYjDJYB/+ M39rcaJloXpLTlk34fWZHlu89LorEhRDo9RJXb1b0QBbXd42iGRNJKLU3pmIbQp1hDov a6qQCIieeLgCdRG2p5IsLIyhqsonFHjtoYw4/zgq9gMxcyt1QLSYFX+BSkLlLIkz8Rpu hRyqKn7BKlZJ3sdgGAxQML3f8A0XKkg1tt+cSGwL8EIS0abSq9i6+12fBeSc9483OHks 0kMh7446oWx4fFgvTClhLUOsuq7bnvPwl+0rHx5jz/bhBh0Q5gsIMQwc3gR1KDilIOtt ayxg== X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQmPOQDKWt25/03QwrQY5fJ9c/LginP3Ci3cH1dwls9n7fSoiAWfkJs2byp1ti4Sou5LaExG X-Received: by 10.194.142.146 with SMTP id rw18mr65099433wjb.110.1438107379905; Tue, 28 Jul 2015 11:16:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from clue.co.za ([197.89.167.207]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id k2sm20228829wif.4.2015.07.28.11.16.19 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Tue, 28 Jul 2015 11:16:19 -0700 (PDT) From: Ian FREISLICH X-Google-Original-From: "Ian FREISLICH" Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=zen) by clue.co.za with esmtp (Exim 4.85 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1ZK9QG-000CAR-KW for current@freebsd.org; Tue, 28 Jul 2015 20:16:16 +0200 To: current@freebsd.org Subject: "broken" symbolic links in /usr/lib X-Attribution: BOFH MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-ID: <46773.1438107376.1@zen> Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2015 20:16:16 +0200 Message-Id: X-Mailman-Approved-At: Tue, 28 Jul 2015 18:41:43 +0000 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2015 18:16:22 -0000 Hi I cannot for the life of me figure out why this is so: As non-root: [zen] /usr/lib $ file libgcc_s.so libgcc_s.so: broken symbolic link to ../../lib/libgcc_s.so.1 As root: [zen] /usr/lib # file libgcc_s.so libgcc_s.so: symbolic link to ../../lib/libgcc_s.so.1 Only on one of my machines, all running CURRENT from within a day. The upshot is that I have to be root in order to link code. Any ideas greatly appreciated. Ian -- Ian Freislich