portupgrade system destruction?

[Kris Kennaway]

On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 10:27:23PM -0600, Eric Anderson wrote:
> Kris Kennaway wrote:
> >On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 09:17:12PM -0600, Eric Anderson wrote:
> >
> >>I have a few dedicated servers at a hosting company (about 3 hours drive 
> >>time away).  On one of the systems I ran a 'portupgrade -arR' this 
> >>morning, and then disconnected (I ran it in a screen session). About an 
> >>hour later, I realized I could not log in anymore via ssh.  Seems that I 
> >>can connect, but my passwords fail (permission denied).  I can't FTP in, 
> >>or check mail with any username/password combos.  Even my preshared SSH 
> >>keys do not work.  When connecting via POP, I get this message:
> >>
> >>Connected to hostname.
> >>Escape character is '^]'.
> >>/usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libc-client4.so.8" not found
> >>Connection closed by foreign host.
> >>
> >>Can anyone help me figure out what may have gone wrong?
> >
> >
> >Probably you're 1) using an ssh port instead of the base system
> >version, and 2) the portupgrade stalled or exited somewhere in between
> >updating a library it depends on and updating the port itself (ditto
> >for pop).  System upgrades can be dangerous when you don't have a
> >fallback plan :-)
> 
> Is ssh a port by default in 4.10?  I thought it was in the base os.. How 
> would that explain my ftp access problems too?  Seems like they would 
> not be tied..

No.  Something unexpected has clearly happened..maybe your system ran
out of swap space?

> Any ideas on what 'libc-client4.so.8' is installed from?  Maybe that 
> would help me find the culprit port.

The cclient port, but it's only used for pop/imap and isn't likely to
be the direct cause of your problems, only collateral damage.

Kris
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