missing /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1 ... not found

[Ulf Zimmermann]

On Wed, Dec 24, 2003 at 07:35:07PM -0500, Peter Leftwich wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Ulf Zimmermann wrote:
> > cat /mnt/cdrom1/bin/bin.[a-z]* | tar ztvf - | grep ld-elf
> > That will you show the path in the tar.
> 
> # cat /mnt/cdrom1/bin/bin.[a-z]* | tar ztvf - | grep ld-elf
> -r-xr-xr-x root/wheel      79840 2002-10-09 14:45:19 ./usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1
> 
> gzip: stdin: decompression OK, trailing garbage ignored
> tar: Child died with signal 13
> tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
> 
> Darn, I even did 'cd /' and then ran it or 'cd /mnt/cdrom' then ran it but
> got the same ./usr/libexec etc junk.  I have to run the grep while
> "standing" in a non root-mounted locale I suppose??
> 
> Great.  *sarcasm* So we've found it.  It's there, we know it's there, but I
> don't know which file it is in!  Ugh ugh ugh.  Kill me!
> 
> > then you can use the same as above but with "zxvf" and the pathname for
> > ld-elf.so.1
> > Regards, Ulf.
> > Ulf Zimmermann, 1525 Pacific Ave., Alameda, CA-94501, #: 510-865-0204
> > You can find my resume at: http://seven.Alameda.net/~ulf/resume.html
> 
> I wonder what it meant by child died and previous errors.  At startup, I
> figured out how to press F2 and go into an interactive, "expert" as it was
> called mode of bootup / kernel loading process.  There have been ide-scsi
> errors and kernel panics in the past so I pressed 'n' to not load any scsi
> modules.
> 
> However, oddly enough, my "dmesg" output is replete (full of) weird ide and
> scsi error messages.  Could they be what tar/gzip is talking about?  There
> is a random timer probably counting down to my next kernel panic from this
> Knoppix 3.2 Debian Linux CD-R I am booted up into!!  I better scoot.  Help.
> 
> -- Peter Leftwich
> President & Founder, Video2Video Services
> Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA
> http://Www.Video2Video.Com


Go into a writable directory, then execute:

cat /mnt/cdrom1/bin/bin.[a-z][a-z] | tar zxvf - ./usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1

That should unpack it into your current directory including making the usr
and libexec directory.

-- 
Regards, Ulf.

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Ulf Zimmermann, 1525 Pacific Ave., Alameda, CA-94501, #: 510-865-0204
You can find my resume at: http://seven.Alameda.net/~ulf/resume.html