From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 18 19:21:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0195837BB5C for ; Fri, 18 Feb 2000 19:21:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id WAA56828; Fri, 18 Feb 2000 22:26:17 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 22:26:16 -0500 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: Hugh LaMaster Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, cjclark@home.com, Ryuhei Tanabe Subject: Re: Why should I upgrade from 2.2.8 to 3.4 Message-ID: <20000218222616.A56495@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Reply-To: cjclark@home.com References: <20000217220642.B53575@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from lamaster@nren.nasa.gov on Fri, Feb 18, 2000 at 01:20:35PM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Feb 18, 2000 at 01:20:35PM -0800, Hugh LaMaster wrote: > > On Thu, 17 Feb 2000, Crist J. Clark wrote: > > > Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 22:06:42 -0500 > > From: Crist J. Clark > > Reply-To: cjclark@home.com > > To: Ryuhei Tanabe > > Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > > Subject: Re: Why should I upgrade from 2.2.8 to 3.4 > > > > On Wed, Feb 16, 2000 at 10:05:20AM -0800, Ryuhei Tanabe wrote: > > > Hello all > > > > > > I'm currently running freebsd 2.2.8-stable on my machine. Well of course, > > > I ve been thinking of upgrading my server to 3.x-stable. > > > But I'm sort of scared of that I might just screw my server when I upgrade it. > > > Is there any specific things, I should be very careful when upgrading > > > Freebsd from 2.2.8 to 3.x ? > > My upgrade went pretty smoothly, generally, but, I'm kind of stuck > on one smallish point. The M3 libraries seem to be a.out format only, > but, newly downloaded versions of some utilities are looking for > ELF versions of the libraries and these are not being found. > For example, if I try to run cvsup, it seems to be looking > for an ELF version of "libm3formsvbt.so.6" and can't find it. > Since I can't get cvsup to work, I can't get the ports directory > in sync, and so I'm nervous about trying to rebuild the M3 libraries. > At this point, I'm not sure what the simplest way out of this > little circle is. That is an odd error. Anyway, where is your old cvsup? > > To start with, > > > > 1) New boot blocks. > > > > 2) Incompatible wtmp and utmp between versions. > > > > 3) Rebuild shared-lib hints. > > Could you be specific on how to do this to resolve > the above problem wrt the M3 libraries? [121:~] file `which cvsup` /usr/local/bin/cvsup: FreeBSD/i386 compact demand paged executable [122:~] ldd `which cvsup` ldd: /usr/local/bin/cvsup: not a dynamic executable [123:~] ls -l `which cvsup` -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 2719744 Aug 30 08:55 /usr/local/bin/cvsup My CVSup is a static one. I can give you a copy if you'd like. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message