Upgrade to 7.0; Shared Object Not Found

Kris Kennaway kris at FreeBSD.org
Tue Jan 8 16:51:50 PST 2008


Schiz0 wrote:
> On Jan 8, 2008 7:33 PM, Kris Kennaway <kris at freebsd.org> wrote:
>> Schiz0 wrote:
>>> Hey,
>>>
>>> I recently upgraded from 6.3-PRERELEASE to 7.0-PRERELEASE
>>>
>>> # uname -a
>>> FreeBSD Mercury 7.0-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 7.0-PRERELEASE #0: Tue Jan  8
>>> 15:07:49 EST 2008
>>> root at Mercury:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SCHIZ0NET_MERCURY  i38
>>>
>>>
>>> Now, whenever I run any various commands, I get various errors:
>>>
>>> # vim
>>> /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libncurses.so.6" not found,
>>> required by "vim"
>>> # portupgrade
>>> /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libcrypt.so.3" not found,
>>> required by "ruby18"
>>> # bash
>>> /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libncurses.so.6" not found,
>>> required by "bash"
>>> And so on...
>>>
>>> It had me locked out at first because my default shell is bash. But I
>>> got it working with /bin/csh now.
>>>
>>> So. Apparently I'm missing some shared objects. Can anyone shed any
>>> light on the issue? Or guide me on how to fix it?
>> Part of the upgrade that you omitted was to install new 7.0 versions of
>> your installed ports.  portupgrade -fa or -faP.
>>
>> Kris
>>
>>
> 
> The only problem with that is I'm unable to run portupgrade :-\
> 
> # portupgrade -fa
> /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libcrypt.so.3" not found,
> required by "ruby18"
> 
> So do I have to deinstall and reinstall portupgrade (and the ports
> that it depends on)?

Well if you just did the upgrade then you should still have the old 
libraries to use as an interim measure while you rebuild.  How did you 
go about upgrading, and can you think of anything you did that may have 
deleted them?

Kris


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