Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 16:02:27 -0500 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: Michael Gardner <gardnermj@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ldconfig mistake renders system unbootable? Message-ID: <20060815210227.GA5160@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> In-Reply-To: <d920be5d0608151358vf22dcd8jde97b39db6b9ad93@mail.gmail.com> References: <d920be5d0608151358vf22dcd8jde97b39db6b9ad93@mail.gmail.com>
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--qDbXVdCdHGoSgWSk Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 03:58:59PM -0500, Michael Gardner wrote: > I was trying to get a Linux binary to run > (http://filter24.org/seq24/), and was having problems with linking, so > I messed around with ldconfig a bit and somehow ended up breaking my > system completely. The command I ran before everything broke was > "ldconfig -elf /usr/compat/linux/lib", which I now realize was not at > all what I wanted to do. Now when I try to boot FreeBSD, even in > single user mode, I get the folowing: >=20 > libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Undefined symbol "__stdoutp" referenced from COPY > relocation in -sh > libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Undefined symbol "__stdoutp" referenced from COPY > relocation in sh >=20 > It then asks me for the location of my shell, but keeps giving the > errors above no matter which shell I choose (/bin/sh being the obvious > one). >=20 > I'm running FreeBSD 6.1 (and have been since it came out, so this > shouldn't have anything to do with upgrading). I know I did something > monumentally dumb, but how can I fix things? Use /rescue/sh as your shell (it's statically linked) and then use /rescue/ldconfig to fix the databases. -- Brooks --qDbXVdCdHGoSgWSk Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFE4jZiXY6L6fI4GtQRAkOzAKCc6TME3a9kl0qg7ClmHwhKmop9uwCfUoYU Ib5Durm1PrWokueO7GPQmPc= =xq1l -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --qDbXVdCdHGoSgWSk--
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