From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 14 14:00:16 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 76B47106568C for ; Tue, 14 Jul 2009 14:00:16 +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 280F78FC21 for ; Tue, 14 Jul 2009 14:00:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pervect@gmail.com) Received: by gxk17 with SMTP id 17so4152232gxk.19 for ; Tue, 14 Jul 2009 07:00:15 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:received:in-reply-to :references:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc :content-type; bh=Ni5AfAyWJ1C/ZTUx5wdAueohHyduWJNMwfLx4/ZPUUc=; b=TpSevccS9lxI/Ju8FSLKZQuQ2NnojQ88+FQxG5EPWkP89REZacNW+nHT3271PyI5x/ 3OuWy3p+X9y8XmcqcvJXbQ6kocrNcoN9O9z5lzU15RSf2z65hyrTylUTRFHzRyl465XY rfF9gstS1zAZf0PPVdnVNhUECK56qqg0PmTk8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; b=AFUy6QJT/3rWuQ7t/F5iuGKrmFlfsejRJ8qhS5uER63q43pmLDOebB1GtYGPzsEENH vcYA2Zj65OSe0Y5HjCEMELZi5iSdszL8G5K+SAt/RfmgSxM76hwRnrBGTUUG2yhpIpKr 2pWi/k8UeGqKOEgcw0P7hioWtL48P0cXAzCdE= MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: pervect@gmail.com Received: by 10.231.13.69 with SMTP id b5mr1518622iba.40.1247580014933; Tue, 14 Jul 2009 07:00:14 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20090714103103.14479.qmail@us1.tomahawkonline.net> References: <20090714024358.8095.qmail@us1.tomahawkonline.net> <20090714103103.14479.qmail@us1.tomahawkonline.net> Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 10:00:14 -0400 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 28a2deb2241d7077 Message-ID: From: Victor Starenky To: Sagara Wijetunga Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 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 14:00:16 -0000 Sorry for the lame question. But how exactly would I go about recompiling the base?Could you point me to any articles/manuals about it? I'm just trying to understand which steps exactly need to be done and how to do it. Compiling everything would take me a few weeks on this machine :( Thanks again! Victor On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 6:31 AM, Sagara Wijetunga wrote: > Victor Starenky writes: > > Actually I am running this without GUI (X is a luxury on this machine) .But > > if I restore it from the live CD I understand that all ports I have will be > > messed up? > > You build ports on top of a working base. Now your foundation, aka the base > has gone wrong. What you got to do is to get the base working again. > > Actually the first thing you should try is, to compile the base and the > kernel (buildworld, buildkernel, etc) and install them properly. Check every > stage complete without any error. If you can reinstall your base without any > error, your base is working. Then you can rebuild your ports. > > If you cannot, recompile your base, ie. if errors develops, then copy > necessary libs, etc. from the live CD till your recompile the base completes > without errors. > > So my only option would be to go and install/reinstall all of them from the > > scratch? Building anything that needs Ruby for example takes like 24 hours > on this machine :( > > This is your last option. > > Regards > Sagara > >