amd64/122624: unusable mininal installation of FreeBSD-7.0

[John Baldwin]

The following reply was made to PR amd64/122624; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: John Baldwin <jhb at freebsd.org>
To: freebsd-amd64 at freebsd.org
Cc: Fernan Aguero <fernan at unsam.edu.ar>, freebsd-gnats-submit at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: amd64/122624: unusable mininal installation of FreeBSD-7.0
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 13:51:48 -0400

 On Thursday 10 April 2008 09:36:16 am Fernan Aguero wrote:
 > 
 > >Number:         122624
 > >Category:       amd64
 > >Synopsis:       unusable mininal installation of FreeBSD-7.0
 > >Confidential:   no
 > >Severity:       critical
 > >Priority:       high
 > >Responsible:    freebsd-amd64
 > >State:          open
 > >Quarter:        
 > >Keywords:       
 > >Date-Required:
 > >Class:          change-request
 > >Submitter-Id:   current-users
 > >Arrival-Date:   Thu Apr 10 13:40:00 UTC 2008
 > >Closed-Date:
 > >Last-Modified:
 > >Originator:     Fernan Aguero
 > >Release:        7.0-RELEASE
 > >Organization:
 > UNSAM
 > >Environment:
 > >Description:
 > I've installed a fresh copy of FreeBSD-7.0-RELEASE (amd64) using the Disc1 
 ISO.
 > 
 > I did an expert installation, and selected 'Minimal' in the selection of 
 packages/distributions, because I already have a setup in the lab with a 
 build host having a CVS mirror of FreeBSD (a setup pretty similar to that 
 described in development(7)).
 > 
 > Because of the minimal setup, /usr/src is empty.
 > 
 > This in turn produces the following errors upong boot:
 > ld-elf.so.1: assert failed: /usr/src/libexec/rtld-elf/amd64/reloc.c:341
 > Abort trap (core dumped)
 > 
 > This has the consequence that many executable files are missing. The most 
 important of which is 'make' which prevents us from doing anything 
 (installing ports, etc):
 > /usr/bin/make: Exec format error. Binary file not executable
 > 
 > This is solved if I edit /etc/fstab and mount a checkout of FreeBSD-7.0 
 sources in  /usr/src. But this is not a good solution. A minimal installation 
 from CD should produce a working installation!
 
 ld-elf.so.1 doesn't use anything from /usr/src.  The specific assert that is 
 failing is this:
 
         assert(ELF_R_TYPE(rela->r_info) == R_X86_64_JMP_SLOT);
 
 in reloc_plt() in src/libexec/rtld-elf/amd64/reloc.c.  I wonder if you somehow 
 have 32-bit binaries instead of 64-bit?
 
 -- 
 John Baldwin