I've borked my ZFS system upgrading to -STABLE

[Steve Bertrand]

Kevin Day wrote:
> 
> On May 27, 2009, at 11:49 AM, Steve Bertrand wrote:
> 
>> Hey all,
>>
>> In short, I've got a system with /boot on a USB thumb drive that I boot
>> from, which then mounts root and the rest of the system from a 4-disk
>> ZFS storage pool.
>>
>> However, during the upgrade, something didn't go quite right, and now
>> when I boot, I end up with:
>>
>> /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libc.so.7" not found required by sh
> 
> 
> While I don't have much help to get you fixed, I can tell you how this
> likely happened if you did a "make world" or "make installworld" at one
> point.
> 
> The installworld script is told that /lib/libc.so.x has to have a
> "chflags schg" applied to it, making it unchangeable. So when
> installing, it deletes the old libc, copies the new libc over, tries to
> do a chflags on it, fails because ZFS doesn't support flags, so it
> deletes libc and gives up.
> 
> libc is the first file that installworld tries to create using schg, so
> that's where it fails. The workaround is to do "make installworld
> NO_FSCHG=" so that it doesn't bother trying to set flags.

That makes absolutely perfect sense!

Thanks Kevin, I'll give that a try and go from there.

Steve
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