Re: System reports libelf.so.1 finds libedit.so.8 not proper layout?

Thanks so much! I'm back up and online. I should have thought of it as I
remember how I thought it was a great idea and it was.

For the record, something happened to the ld-elf.so.hints file. It
contained only lib32 entries. Restored from backup and the system booted up
normally.

On Mon, May 22, 2023, 00:13 Arthur Chance <freebsd@qeng-ho.org> wrote:

> On 22/05/2023 06:18, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> > My month-old server has died with a baffling error. It boots to the
> > prompt to enter the shell (default: /bin/sh). Entering anything returns:
> > libelf.so.1:  /usr/lib32/libedit.20.8: unsupported file layout
> >
> > As there is no way to enter any command without a shell, I can't
> > proceed. This baffles me.
>
> Have you tried using /rescue/sh (or /rescue/{csh,tcsh) depending on
> taste)? The /rescue programs are statically linked so should work.
>
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> without a plan, on top of ruins.
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