[Fwd: How To Recover From Missing /lib/libc.so.7?]

[Jakub Lach]

Drew Tomlinson wrote:
> 
> I was running FreeBSD8.0-BETA2 amd64 and attempted to upgrade with
> current sources as of yesterday (8/6/09). I successfully built world and
> kernel, and installed the kernel. However when I attempted to install
> world, I got this error:
> 
> ===> lib/libc (install)
> install -C -o root -g wheel -m 444   libc.a /usr/lib
> install -C -o root -g wheel -m 444   libc_p.a /usr/lib
> install -s -o root -g wheel -m 444   -fschg -S  libc.so.7 /lib
> install: /lib/libc.so.7: chflags: Invalid argument
> *** Error code 71
> 
> Stop in /usr/src/lib/libc.
> *** Error code 1
> 
> 
> And now I can't do anything as every command fails with:
> 
> /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libc.so.7" not found
> 
> How can I recover from this error?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Drew
> 
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If it's really missing, use some bootcd.
It shouldn't though. 

Any chance you have deleted /lib conten in attempt to purge 
/usr/local/lib?

-best regards, 
Jakub Lach
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