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Subject: Re: [FreeBSD-1.1.BETA] ld.so not found...
Message-ID: <2kvuk8$3hs@pdq.coe.montana.edu>
From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams)
Date: 1 Mar 1994 17:39:20 GMT
References: <2ku7f6$e62@nigel.msen.com>
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In article <2ku7f6$e62@nigel.msen.com>,
Mark Taylor  <mtaylor@cybernet.com> wrote:
>I've installed 1.1.BETA on a Gateway 486 DX2/66.  I got all of the source
>and the binaries.

Are you on the mailing lists?  In the BETA announcement, it was
*strongly suggested* that if you want to be a BETA tester you *MUST* be
on the mailing lists in order to now about possible bugs in the
distribution.

>First I installed the binary distribution.  I found
>that the man pages were broken (man anything returned "No ld.so").  I saw
>that the program ldconfig was run during rc, so I figured I did something
>wrong.  Then I recompiled the entire source distribution and installed it.
>This did not fix my problem.  Still no ld.so, yet I can see it sitting
>there
>as r-xr-xr-x bin bin /usr/libexec/ld.so.  What can I do to get my man
>pages
>in 1.1.BETA?  What have I done wrong?

You didn't get on the mailing lists, where the fix to this was discussed.

The bug was in the cpio binary on the initial floppy boot, not the
distribution itself.  Cpio did not create some directories with the
correct permissions, most notably:
/usr/lib /usr/lib, /usr/libexec /usr/share /usr/share/misc

Change the permissions on all those directories to 755 and all will
be well.

ie:
# chmod 755 /usr/lib /usr/lib, /usr/libexec /usr/share /usr/share/misc

You *HAVE* to get on the mailing lists for BETA testing software.


Nate

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