Solution: Unable to decipher error "ELF binary type 3 not
known"
Bob Perry
rperry at gti.net
Sun Jun 26 17:07:13 GMT 2005
On Sun, 2005-06-26 at 18:49 +0200, Julien Gabel wrote:
> >> I ran portupgrade -f linux_base-8 successfully and then ran portupgrade
> >> -arR. The system reports stale dependencies and suggest I manually run
> >> pkgdb -F to fix which I do. The first line of output reads:
> >> Stale dependency: acroread-5.10_1,1 -> linux-expat-1.95.5_2
> >> (textproc/linux-expat):
> >> linux-fontconfig-2.1_2 (score:31%) ? ([y]es/[n]o/[a]ll)
> >>
> >> If I understand Michael Lucas' "Cleaning Up Ports", acroread has
> >> recorded linux-expat-1.95.5_2 as a dependency but linux-fontconfig-2.1_2
> >> is installed and it's asking if I want to have the entry in /var/db/pkg
> >> point to linux-fontconfig-2.1_2 as the correct dependency. And the
> >> answer is, "Damned if I know."
>
> > As previously mentioned, I resolved the original error:
> > ELF binary type "3" not known
> > by reinstalling linux_base-8 as recommended. Not sure about this issue
> > but I will research further. Thanks again.
> >
> > The stale dependency issue was another story. I discovered, through
> > comparing the dependency output from pkg_info -rR against the actual
> > list of dependency data that some of the dependent files were missing.
> > (I'm sure I must have deleted them inadvertently). Once they were
> > identified and reinstalled everything was as it should have been.
> > I don't know if this is a bug in the program or just me. At least now I
> > know my next steps when I see a stale dependency prompt requesting me to
> > choose between two apparently non-related packages.
>
> I think in this particular case, a forced upgrade/reinstall of the targeted
> port and its dependancies must be all what you wanted:
> # portupgrade -rRf acroread5 /* Or what the _name_ of the package is */
>
That must explain why the deinstall/reinstall of acroread5 wasn't very
helpful.
Thank you.
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