I just installed 5.1-release on a sparc64, and then cvsup'ed to the latest snapshot of -current. Since that update is such a large jump in time, I was going from a system which had no /rescue or /libexec to one which builds everything dynamically. This gets one into a mess in the middle of installworld, where suddenly almost everything dies with messages like: "ELF interpreter /libexec/ld-elf.so.1 not found" I know others have run into this problem, but there seems to be nothing in UPDATING to warn people about it. Or at least, I didn't see anything in /usr/src/UPDATING under sparc64. Instead of warning people, I was wondering if there would be any downside to having installworld always install /rescue first (since that should not depend on anything else), and install /libexec before installing executables. - - - - I did recover from that mess by taking advantage of tips given in previous threads on this situation. I used the rescue binary in to give me a few key commands, doing something like: cd /usr/obj/usr/src/rescue/rescue ./rescue mkdir /usr/tempbin ./rescue ln rescue /usr/tempbin/cp ./rescue ln rescue /usr/tempbin/cat ./rescue ln rescue /usr/tempbin/ldconfig ./rescue ln rescue /usr/tempbin/ln ...etc... PATH=/usr/tempbin cd /usr/obj/usr/src/libexec/rtld-elf cp -p * /libexec ldconfig -m /lib cd /usr/obj/usr/src/usr.bin/xinstall cp -p xinstall /usr/bin/install I may have missed a few steps there, but I think that got me far enough along that I could 'make install's in /usr/src/lib and /usr/src/libexec. Once I was confident that I had enough working parts installed, I went back and repeated the 'make installworld'. Seems to have worked out OK. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad_at_gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad_at_freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih_at_rpi.eduReceived on Wed Nov 26 2003 - 17:39:23 UTC
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