Programs and lib's disappearing, FreeBSD 5.4

[Kris Kennaway]

On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 03:44:19PM +1200, Nick Larsen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I love FreeBSD, but lately I've found in version 5.4-RELEASE every so
> often I won't be able to run a program as it depends on a library
> (which used to be there).
> 
> Eg: today i tried to access my webserver...Failed... So I SSH'd into
> the box and ran
> # apachectl start
> 
> It complained that it couldn't find libsasl2.so.2 which was needed by
> modules/libphp4.so, but my web server had been working fine other
> days, with absolutely no changes.
> I fixed this problem, and then it couldnt find some *expat*.so.5 file,
> which i then created sym links in /lib and /usr/lib (as it resides in
> /usr/local/lib)

This was the wrong solution.

> Later on today, I tried to sudo a command, and got...
> bash: sudo: command not found
> 
> I had to reinstall sudo.
> 
> I'm extremely cofused, and have checked auth.log (My passwords are
> quite difficult to crack as they have no meaning).

Either you had/still have some serious disk corruption (drop to
single-user mode and run fsck -f), or someone (e.g. another admin, or
you in a moment of forgetfulness) did some deleting or a misdirected
portupgrade session.

Kris
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