From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 14 06:02:19 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 2BF721065673 for ; Tue, 14 Jul 2009 06:02:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sagara@tomahawk.com.sg) Received: from us1.tomahawkonline.net (us1.tomahawkonline.net [66.98.178.56]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E59968FC18 for ; Tue, 14 Jul 2009 06:02:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sagara@tomahawk.com.sg) Received: (qmail 8097 invoked by alias); 14 Jul 2009 02:43:58 -0000 Message-ID: <20090714024358.8095.qmail@us1.tomahawkonline.net> References: In-Reply-To: From: "Sagara Wijetunga" To: Victor Starenky Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 21:43:58 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 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 06:02:19 -0000 Victor Starenky writes: > 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 Hi Victor What you could do is put it back what is missing/damaged using an live FreeBSD CD and get the base system to work again without any GUI. Regards Sagara