On 29 November 2012, at 13:44, Ian Lepore wrote:

> On Thu, 2012-11-29 at 13:33 -0800, Doug Hardie wrote:
>> On 29 November 2012, at 06:01, Gary Palmer wrote:
>> 
>>> On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 10:46:51PM -0800, Doug Hardie wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> On 28 November 2012, at 20:01, Devin Teske wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Nov 28, 2012, at 7:36 PM, Doug Hardie wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> I have installed 4 systems from the same FreeBSD 9.1-RC3 disk.  Three of 
>>>>>> them worked just fine.  The last one is causing a problem.  It will not 
>>>>>> look in /usr/local/lib/ for shared libraries.  I did the standard 
>>>>>> install, moved in some source, compiled it and tried to run it.  The 
>>>>>> library is there.  On the working systems ktrace shows:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 2259 intro    CALL  access(0x28066000,0<F_OK>)
>>>>>> 2259 intro    NAMI  "/lib/libsermons.so"
>>>>>> 2259 intro    RET   access -1 errno 2 No such file or directory
>>>>>> 2259 intro    CALL  access(0x28066000,0<F_OK>)
>>>>>> 2259 intro    NAMI  "/usr/lib/libsermons.so"
>>>>>> 2259 intro    RET   access -1 errno 2 No such file or directory
>>>>>> 2259 intro    CALL  access(0x28066000,0<F_OK>)
>>>>>> 2259 intro    NAMI  "/usr/lib/compat/libsermons.so"
>>>>>> 2259 intro    RET   access -1 errno 2 No such file or directory
>>>>>> 2259 intro    CALL  access(0x28066000,0<F_OK>)
>>>>>> 2259 intro    NAMI  "/usr/local/lib/libsermons.so"
>>>>>> 2259 intro    RET   access 0
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> On the failing system ktrace shows:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 6746 intro    NAMI  "/lib/libsermons.so"
>>>>>> 6746 intro    RET   access -1 errno 2 No such file or directory
>>>>>> 6746 intro    CALL  access(0x28066000,0<F_OK>)
>>>>>> 6746 intro    NAMI  "/usr/lib/libsermons.so"
>>>>>> 6746 intro    RET   access -1 errno 2 No such file or directory
>>>>>> 6746 intro    CALL  access(0x28066000,0<F_OK>)
>>>>>> 6746 intro    NAMI  "/usr/lib/compat/libsermons.so"
>>>>>> 6746 intro    RET   access -1 errno 2 No such file or directory
>>>>>> 6746 intro    CALL  access(0x28066000,0<F_OK>)
>>>>>> 6746 intro    NAMI  "/lib/libsermons.so"
>>>>>> 6746 intro    RET   access -1 errno 2 No such file or directory
>>>>>> 6746 intro    CALL  access(0x28066000,0<F_OK>)
>>>>>> 6746 intro    NAMI  "/usr/lib/libsermons.so"
>>>>>> 6746 intro    RET   access -1 errno 2 No such file or directory
>>>>>> 6746 intro    CALL  write(0x2,0x28060080,0x3c)
>>>>>> 6746 intro    GIO   fd 2 wrote 60 bytes
>>>>>>    "Shared object "libsermons.so" not found, required by "intro""
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> It never attempts to check /usr/local/lib.  I can't find any 
>>>>>> configuration item that affects that.  How can this be fixed?
>>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> What's the value of "ldconfig_paths" in rc.conf(5)?
>>>>> 
>>>>> That includes:
>>>>> /etc/rc.conf
>>>>> /etc/rc.conf.local (if it exists)
>>>>> /etc/defaults/rc.conf
>>>>> 
>>>>> Here on my 9.0-R system it has the following in /etc/defaults/rc.conf:
>>>>> /usr/lib/compat /usr/local/lib /usr/local/lib/compat/pkg
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> /etc/defaults/rc.conf has:
>>>> 
>>>> ldconfig_paths="/usr/lib/compat /usr/local/lib /usr/local/lib/compat/pkg"
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> /etc/rc.conf has nothing for ldconfig_paths.
>>> 
>>> Check that /usr/local/lib doesn't have group or other write perms.
>>> ldconfig ignores directories that are group/world writable.
>>> 
>>> To fix:
>>> 
>>> chmod go-w /usr/local/lib
>>> sh /etc/rc.d/ldconfig start
>> 
>> sermons# ll -d /usr/local/lib
>> drwxr-xr-x  4 root  wheel  512 Nov 28 19:07 /usr/local/lib
>> 
>> 
>> I think I found the cause of the problem.  A reboot corrected the issue.  
>> Apparently when ldconfig was run /usr/local/lib didn't exist.  Apparently it 
>> doesn't check for that except for in ldconfig.  I was not aware of ldconfig 
>> before.  That explains why the reboot worked.  Thanks to all who provided 
>> information.
> 
> Oh.  Hmm, in that case, "service ldconfig restart" probably would have
> fixed it.  (Seems sorta strange to "restart" a "service" that just
> builds a table and exits.)

I am sure it would have.  I suspect there are more "unexpected" services like 
that.  There are too many services to remember, let alone understand.  A Google 
search turned up nothing usable for me.  If I could have hit on ldconfig, then 
the man page would have been perfectly clear… 

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