From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 4 22:00:17 2008 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 114281065672 for ; Tue, 4 Mar 2008 22:00:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dyioulos@firstbhph.com) Received: from mail1.firstbhph.com (mail1.firstbhph.com [67.108.218.227]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4AEF8FC25 for ; Tue, 4 Mar 2008 22:00:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dyioulos@firstbhph.com) X-First1-MailScanner-Watermark: 1205272805.28361@+OXIKlsphLWQ89rcq2X2oQ Received: from [192.168.100.52] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail1.firstbhph.com (8.14.2/8.12.11) with ESMTP id m24M04oZ017741 for ; Tue, 4 Mar 2008 17:00:05 -0500 From: Dimitri Yioulos Organization: First 1 Financial Corporation To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2008 17:00:07 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.3 References: <284486.87640.qm@web25010.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> <200803041646.13475.dyioulos@firstbhph.com> <47CDC4DF.704@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <47CDC4DF.704@FreeBSD.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200803041700.07757.dyioulos@firstbhph.com> X-Synonym: Copied by Synonym (http://www.modulo.ro/synonym) to: archive@firstbhph.com X-First1-MailScanner-Information: Please contact First 1 Financial Corporation for more information X-First1-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-First1-MailScanner-MCPCheck: MCP-Clean, MCP-Checker (score=0, required 1) X-MailScanner-From: dyioulos@firstbhph.com X-MailScanner-To: archive@firstbhph.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Lib Errors After 6.3 - 7 Update 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, 04 Mar 2008 22:00:17 -0000 On Tuesday 04 March 2008 4:53 pm, Kris Kennaway wrote: > Dimitri Yioulos wrote: > > On Tuesday 04 March 2008 4:20 pm, Kris Kennaway wrote: > >> Dimitri Yioulos wrote: > >>> On Tuesday 04 March 2008 3:32 pm, Robert Davison wrote: > >>>> I've tried to update 6.3 to 7 using the sh freebsd-update.sh -f > >>>> freebsd-update.conf -r 7.0-RELEASE upgrade process. I thought all had > >>>> gone well untill I started getting lib-XXX.so4 missing file here and > >>>> libphp.so missing there. I'm guessing that the update process has > >>>> deleatd some shared libararies which are still required. > >>>> > >>>> I have the files in question, but instead of XXX.so.4, the file is > >>>> called XXX.so.5 > >>>> > >>>> I followed the instructions to the 'T' but nothing seems to work i.e > >>>> MailScanner, apache etc. > >>>> > >>>> I've tried portupgrade -af to see if I can link the ports to the new > >>>> lib files, but alas nothing. > >>>> > >>>> Anyone got any ideas?? > >>> > >>> Perhaps someone has a better suggestion for you, but I had a similar > >>> issue with regard to installing VMware Tools. In my case, I symlinked > >>> libc.so.5 linked to libc.so.6, and the VMware Tools installation > >>> proceeded. > >> > >> Ah yes, I forgot about bogus advice option 2 :-) > >> > >> Kris > >> _______________________________________________ > > > > As I said, someone might have a better suggestion, as I'm a relative > > noob. My point was to try symlinking your needed library file to that > > which you find on your system. I'd think it'd be worth a try. But, hey, > > if it's bogus advice (option 2 :-) ), then best of luck. > > The reason it's bogus is because we change library versions for good > reason: they are incompatible. > > Sometimes they are incompatible in obvious ways, sometimes in subtle > ways. If you need libc.so.5 to run a FreeBSD 5.x binary, install the > compat5x port. That is not the solution for the OP though, because at > this point he has binaries with an inconsistent set of libraries that > needs to be fixed by moving them all to 7.0. > > Kris > _______________________________________________ Accepted. Thanks for the edification. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.