Issue with upgrade (9.1 to 9.2)

Andre Goree andre.goree at gmail.com
Wed Apr 9 16:16:05 UTC 2014


Anyone have any insight on this?  Is there any way to salvage this or
am I just SoL and need to reinstall?

On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 10:51 PM, Andre Goree <andre.goree at gmail.com> wrote:
> It would seem I've screwed something up with my upgrade.  Soon after
> performing the upgrade via freebsd-update followed by a reboot, I
> tried to go into single-user mode to finish up.  After doing so,
> everytime I attempted to use my /usr partition, I would run into the
> error:
>
> /var: got error 11 while accessing filesystem
>
> I [thought] I fixed this by following this[1] mailing list post, which
> suggested upping 'kern.bio_transient_maxcnt'.  I set that tunable to
> 10 and rebooted, at which point the server appeared to boot fine.  I
> think continued with 'freebsd-update install', however apparently it
> was interrupted -- probably with a kernel panic as my system
> automatically rebooted and was thrown to single-user mode.  Now, the
> issue is that in single-user mode, I cannot access any shell, I get
> the following error:
>
> ELF interpreter /libexec/ld-elf.so.1 not found
>
> I recall running into this on a different box a year or two back...I
> think I had to somehow run ldconfig, but in this case I cannot as even
> when I boot with a live cd and mount my partitions, when I try to
> chroot I run into that same error.  Help?
>
>
> [1]  http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2013-October/075595.html


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