amd64/122624: unusable mininal installation of FreeBSD-7.0

[Fernan Aguero]

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

From: Fernan Aguero <fernan at iib.unsam.edu.ar>
To: John Baldwin <jhb at freebsd.org>
Cc: freebsd-amd64 at freebsd.org, freebsd-gnats-submit at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: amd64/122624: unusable mininal installation of FreeBSD-7.0
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 16:27:42 -0300

 > On Friday 18 April 2008 10:53:08 am Fernan Aguero wrote:
 > > > On Thursday 10 April 2008 02:44:11 pm Fernan Aguero wrote:
 > > > > > 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 wrote down that error on paper and typed it in the email
 > > > > ... but I'm sure it said /usr/src ... that's why I decided
 > > > > to set my /etc/fstab to mount freebsd-7.0 sources from another FreeBSD
 > > > > box and symlink /usr/src.
 > > > 
 > > > That's because the assert() macro puts the full filename of the current 
 > file 
 > > > into the binary when it is compiled for the error message.  The binary is 
 > not 
 > > > trying to read anything from /usr/src itse.f
 > > > 
 > > > > > I wonder if you somehow have 32-bit binaries instead of 64-bit?
 > > > > > 
 > > > > > -- 
 > > > > > John Baldwin
 > > > > 
 > > > > I wonder the same thing because after doing that, even
 > > > > though make was now OK (I was able to cd
 > > > > /usr/ports/sysutils/screen && make install), other commands
 > > > > failed (vi, Exec format error. Binary file not executable).
 > > > 
 > > > It certainly sounds like you have mixed and matched some things.  Maybe 
 > just 
 > > > do a minimal install but include the 'lib32' dist for 32-bit binary 
 > compat?  
 > > > minimal probably doesn't include it (but vi also should be a 64-bit 
 > binary, 
 > > > try using 'file' rather than brandelf to see what file thinks vi is).
 > > 
 > > Sorry for the delay in replying,
 > > 
 > > I have just did a new install (completely erasing and
 > > reformatting the disk) and this time I did a standard
 > > install, choosing developer + lib32. Now the box
 > > stops in the boot process attempting to mount root:
 > > 
 > > [...]
 > > ad4: 152587 <WDC WD1600JS-75NCB3 10.02E04> at ata2-master UDMA33
 > > SMP: AP CPU #1 Launched!
 > > SMP: AP CPU #2 Launched!
 > > SMP: AP CPU #3 Launched!
 > > Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ad4s1a
 > > /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: /lib/libncurses.so.7: Shared object
 > > has no run-time symbol table
 > > Enter fill pathname of shell or RETURN for /bin/sh:
 > > 
 > > I cannot even type RETURN and enter a shell, because the
 > > same message about libncurses.so.7 appears!
 > 
 > I think you have some sort of local corruption either on the CD itself, the 
 > ISO image, or perhaps on the hard drive?  If the 7.0 CD were this 
 > fundamentally broken there would be more widespread reports of problems 
 > rather than this isolated incident.
 > -- 
 > John Baldwin
  
 I will try and burn another copy of the ISO image ... apart
 from that, as I said, the checksums on the downloaded image
 match to those in file, and the disk behaves OK with both
 Ubuntu and FreeBSD-6.x 
 
 Fernan