Command line not responding

[Michael Gass]

On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 09:26:58PM +0200, Dimitry Andric wrote:
> On May 17, 2013, at 19:56, Michael Gass <mgass at csbsju.edu> wrote:
> > Running 9.0-Stable on an i386.
> > 
> > Whenever I type a command at the prompt I get
> > the output
> > 
> > /usr/local/lib/libintl.so.9: Undefined symbol "_ThreadRuneLocale"
> > 
> > and nothing else - the command will not run.
> 
> Are you running bash, by any chance?  Because bash is usually linked to
> libintl, for its internationalized messages.
> 

Not running bash. Running csh.

> In any case, it looks like there is a mismatch between your libc.so, and
> your ports.  Did you recently update your base system?
> 

Updated the ports tree with portsnap and was in the process of
updating my ports when the problem occurred with updating freetype2.

> 
> > Started to happen after trying to update the freetype2 port.
> > Got an error msg while updating libXft-2.1.14.  From that point
> > on I cannot use  the command line.
> 
> How did you update those ports?  Did you rebuild them, or install
> precompiled binary packages?  If the latter, where exactly did you
> retrieve those packages from?
> 

I use portmaster with the -P option to use a package if available.
So some are built and some are downloaded as packages.

Thanks for getting back to me.

-- 
Michael Gass				
mgass at csbsju.edu