From owner-freebsd-current Thu Sep 10 14:06:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA26182 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 10 Sep 1998 14:06:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cimlogic.com.au (cimlog.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.51.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA26169 for ; Thu, 10 Sep 1998 14:06:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jb@cimlogic.com.au) Received: (from jb@localhost) by cimlogic.com.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) id HAA12145; Fri, 11 Sep 1998 07:08:44 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from jb) From: John Birrell Message-Id: <199809102108.HAA12145@cimlogic.com.au> Subject: Re: /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: File format not recognized In-Reply-To: <35F7F766.15E1@ein-hashofet.co.il> from Gilad Rom at "Sep 10, 98 05:59:34 pm" To: rom_glsa@ein-hashofet.co.il (Gilad Rom) Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1998 07:08:43 +1000 (EST) Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Gilad Rom wrote: > Hi. Ive read about the "make move-aout-libs" target and decided to give > it a go. Ive issued that command and - it worked fine. What it did is > move all of the aout libs into their place and all was well. Until > suddenly processed started segfaulting and eventually my system was > paralized because /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1 had this error: > /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: File format not recognized. > whenever Ive tried running a dynamic binary it gave me this error. > I have NO idea whats causing it, I can only boot single user and execute > static binaries, I cant even rebuild aout tools again from the source > tree, since it dies aswell. > > If I did something wrong, I'd LOVE to know about it and hopefully even > get a tip about fixing it. > I dont know what ld-elf is talking about, It gives no specific filename > or error, just this general vague message. Have you got any symbolic links in /usr/lib with single version numbers (e.g. /usr/lib/libc.so.3) to aout libraries? What libraries are left in /usr/lib? -- John Birrell - jb@cimlogic.com.au; jb@freebsd.org http://www.cimlogic.com.au/ CIMlogic Pty Ltd, GPO Box 117A, Melbourne Vic 3001, Australia +61 418 353 137 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message