Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 12:06:30 +0800 From: "Rong-en Fan" <grafan@gmail.com> To: davidb@boothscientific.com Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installworld broken on RELENG_6 by libc commit? Message-ID: <6eb82e0710242106x7ddd84ebn506c74cb71932463@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200710242139.04769.davidb@boothscientific.com> References: <20071025005432.GB8434@waalsdorp.nl> <200710242139.04769.davidb@boothscientific.com>
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On 10/25/07, David Booth <davidb@boothscientific.com> wrote: > On Wednesday 24 October 2007, Alson van der Meulen wrote: > > Hello, > > > > My installworld of RELENG_6 from a few hours ago failed with this > > error (from memory): > > /lib/libncurses.so.6: undefined symbol: __mb_sb_limit > > > > This broke everything that depended on libncurses, plus PAM. I had > > to force a reboot via DDB and copy /usr/obj/lib/libc/libc.so.6 to > > /lib using binaries from /rescue to fix it so I could run make > > installworld again. > > > > I upgraded from RELENG_6 of October, 22. I believe I followed the > > procedure from /usr/src/UPDATING fairly closely, except for the > > reboot to single user part after installing the kernel: > > mergemaster -p && make buildworld && make kernel && make > > installworld && mergemaster && make delete-old > > > > I would expect libc to be installed before other libs. The > > securelevel was -1, so it should be no problem to overwrite libc. > > > > Did I do something wrong or is this a bug/missing entry in > > UPDATING? > > > > regards, > > Alson > > > It is not something you did. I had the same problem and have just > recovered from it. Sorry for the trouble, see my HEADSUP message on -stable@. Regards, Rong-En Fan
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