Installworld broken on RELENG_6 by libc commit?

[Rong-en Fan]

On 10/25/07, David Booth <davidb at boothscientific.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday 24 October 2007, Alson van der Meulen wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > My installworld of RELENG_6 from a few hours ago failed with this
> > error (from memory):
> > /lib/libncurses.so.6: undefined symbol: __mb_sb_limit
> >
> > This broke everything that depended on libncurses, plus PAM. I had
> > to force a reboot via DDB and copy /usr/obj/lib/libc/libc.so.6 to
> > /lib using binaries from /rescue to fix it so I could run make
> > installworld again.
> >
> > I upgraded from RELENG_6 of October, 22. I believe I followed the
> > procedure from /usr/src/UPDATING fairly closely, except for the
> > reboot to single user part after installing the kernel:
> > mergemaster -p && make buildworld && make kernel && make
> > installworld && mergemaster && make delete-old
> >
> > I would expect libc to be installed before other libs. The
> > securelevel was -1, so it should be no problem to overwrite libc.
> >
> > Did I do something wrong or is this a bug/missing entry in
> > UPDATING?
> >
> > regards,
> > Alson
> >
> It is not something you did.  I had the same problem and have just
> recovered from it.

Sorry for the trouble, see my HEADSUP message on -stable at .

Regards,
Rong-En Fan