Issue upgrading to 7.4, looking for guidance

[David Brodbeck]

I ran into a similar issue upgrading from 7.2 to 7.3.  Here's the
thread where I worked it out; it might be helpful in your case:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2010-July/218443.html
My eventual solution was here, if you don't want to read through the
whole thread:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2010-July/218884.html

On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 6:36 PM, Keith Seyffarth <weif at weif.net> wrote:
>
> I recently was having problems with Firefox crashing, which appear to be
> related to a requirement for semaphore support for Firefox after the
> upgrade to the new version of GTK.
>
> Anyway, this left me with a 7.4 kernel and a 7.2 world. Which I
> understand is supposed to work.
>
>
> However, this broke CUPS for printing, and I need to be able to print to
> pdf. This error is generated if I try to build cups, or when cups tries
> to load on startup:
> /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: ./mantohtml: invalid PT_PHDR
>
>
> >From looking around on-line, it looks like somewhere between 7.2 and 7.4
> there was an incompatibility that causes this error in a number of places
> (printing, samba, etc.)
>
>
> So, it looks like I need to upgrade the rest of the way. But I can't get
> the upgrade to work. I thought this was where to start:
>
> # freebsd-update -r 7.4-RELEASE upgrade
> Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 4 mirrors found.
> Fetching public key from update5.FreeBSD.org... failed.
> Fetching public key from update4.FreeBSD.org... failed.
> Fetching public key from update2.FreeBSD.org... failed.
> Fetching public key from update3.FreeBSD.org... failed.
> No mirrors remaining, giving up.
>
> So I ran uname -a to find that this is 7.4-PRERELEASE
>
> FreeBSD janet.weif.net 7.4-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 7.4-PRERELEASE #0: Thu Jan
> 20 19:39:15 MST 2011     weif at janet.weif.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/JANET
> i386
>
>
> so I tried this:
>
> # freebsd-update -r 7.4-PRERELEASE upgrade
> freebsd-update: Cannot upgrade from 7.4-PRERELEASE to itself
>
>
> so, um, what do I need to do to address this error:
> /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: ./mantohtml: invalid PT_PHDR
>
>
> Keith S.
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