Christos Zoulas wrote:
> In article <442B9ECA.6030201 gmail.com>,
> Brian Asemi <asemisldkfjgmail.com> wrote:
>> I got a bunch of security advisories in my e-mail
today, so I figured
>> I'd run a full upgrade on both of my NetBSD boxes.
On the ./build.sh
>> distribution command, the upgrade on my server
failed. This same exact
>> problem happened when I tried to do a source
upgrade from 2.1 to 3.0,
>> and I did a binary upgrade with sysinst to fix it.
>>
>> The error occurred here:
>>
>> nbmake: don't know how to make
/usr/src/lib/libc/net/res_mkquery.c. Stop
>>
>> My system spit out a bunch of errors like this, and
I get this error
>> when I try to run any command as well.
>>
>> /lib/libc.so.12: Undefined symbol
"SYS_statfs" (symnum = 450)
>>
>> I found reference to libc and statfs in
/usr/src/UPDATING, but from
>> April of 2004, almost two years ago! Here is the
text from UPDATING:
>>
>> 20040418:
>> statfs(2) and friends have been replaced with
statvfs(2). Before
>> installing a newly build userland make sure that
you are running
>> a newly built kernel with COMPAT_20 set. In
addition your libc
>> build might not work (undefined SYS_statfs symbol)
because make
>> clean does not know how to remove files it does
not know about
>> anymore. Manually remove all generated .S sources
and objects
>> from the libc build directory.
>>
>> This sounds just like what is affecting me, and I
guess I'm just curious
>> why? I was running 3.0 and upgraded my source tree
with -r netbsd-3.
>> Seems odd, eh?
>>
>> Another thing to mention is that this didn't
happen on my workstation
>> when I upgraded from 2.1 to 3.0 like it did to my
server. I'm a bit
>> frightened to try the upgrade though, because my
workstation is more
>> important than my server  .
>>
>> Any hints would be greatly appreciated.
>
> You need to find the previous good version of libc
(libc.so.X.YYY) and
> link libc.so.12 to it both in /lib and /usr/lib. Then
make cleandir in
> libc, and start again. It did not happen to your
workstation probably
> because you never built there before and you started
from a clean tree.
>
> christos
>
>
Thanks, I'll try this. It's kind of odd though, because I
checked out a
clean copy of the tree before I tried upgrading my server.
-Brian
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