Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2023 12:58:00 +0200 From: Yuri <yuri@aetern.org> To: FreeBSD questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Problem with left over files from earlier releases Message-ID: <1be44824-01e1-b1f8-72e0-73c7c18cda35@aetern.org> In-Reply-To: <7898912.iDzAj6rjnq@curlew> References: <7898912.iDzAj6rjnq@curlew>
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Mike Clarke wrote: > After the latest round of package upgrades sysutils/vm-bhyve and > graphics/digikam failed to start with the error: > > > ld-elf.so.1: /usr/lib/libelf.so.1: version ELFUTILS_1.0 required by > /usr/local/lib/libdw.so.1 not found > > > Digging around for libelf.so I found: > > > curlew:/home/mike% locate libelf.so.1 > > /usr/lib/libelf.so.1 > > /usr/local/lib/libelf.so.1 > > curlew:/home/mike% ls -l /usr/lib/libelf.so.1 /usr/local/lib/libelf.so.1 > > -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 90760 30 Apr 2016 /usr/lib/libelf.so.1 > > lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 15 2 Apr 02:42 > /usr/local/lib/libelf.so.1@ -> libelf-0.187.so > > > It looks like seven year old /usr/lib/libelf.so.1 is left over from an > old version. Booting from a memstick image confirms there is no > /usr/lib/libelf.so.1 in 'out of the box' FreeBSD 13.1 so I deleted it > and both programs worked. But this makes me wonder how many redundant > old files might be lying around in the base system and potentially > causing problems. Is there any easy way to track these down other than > doing a fresh install from scratch? Since I'm intending to upgrade to > 13.2 soon this could be a good time to see if there's more redundant > stuff to clean out. If you are using source upgrades, check list-old* and delete-old* targets in /usr/src/Makefile.
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