ldconfig problem after upgrade 4.11 to 5.5

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Wed Aug 22 06:20:52 PDT 2007


On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 08:44:31AM +0200, Martin Schweizer wrote:
> Hello Kris
> 
> Am Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 02:31:04AM -0400 Kris Kennaway schrieb:
> > > 
> > > Am Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 12:37:25AM -0400 Kris Kennaway schrieb:
> > > > On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 06:22:46AM +0200, Martin Schweizer wrote:
> > > > > After I updated my 4.11 to an 5.5 system (following /usr/src/UPDATING), I get 
> > > > > around 63 error messages while the system boot up:
> > > > > 
> > > > > ldconfig: /var/run/ld.so.hints: No such file or directory
> > > > >           search: trailing characters ignored
> > > > >           No such file or directory
> > > > >         0: - lmalloc.1.1: trailing characters ignored. No such file or 
> > > > > directory
> > > > > ...
> > > > > ...
> > > > > 
> > > > Looks like it might be a broken symlink.
> > > > 
> > > > Why are you updating to 5.5 though?  You should be using 6.2.
> > > 
> > > If I'm understanding /usr/src/UPDATING correct I should first update to 5.5 
> > > and then to 6.2?
> > 
> > OK.  It may have been easier (and still could be) to just do a binary
> > upgrade instead.
> > 
> > > Any ideas where I can check this symlink?
> > 
> > Use find(1) to look for libmalloc.so.1.1
> 
> The files are all located in /usr/lib/compat/aout. The path is defined in 
> /etc/defaults/rc.conf
> [snip]
> ldconfig_paths_aout="/usr/lib/compat/aout /usr/X11R6/lib/aout /usr/local/lib/aout"
> [snip]
> 
> Any ideas?

Are you missing aout support from your kernel?  I think it's COMPAT_AOUT.

Kris


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