Re: Linux init-time errors since elf upgrade

1995-11-29 Thread Andrew Howell
Ian Jackson writes: David Engel writes (Re: Linux init-time errors since elf upgrade): As someone has already noted, this was probably due to nm needing libbfd.so and it not being on the root partition. Someone else suggested putting libbfd.so in /lib. IMO, libbfd.so does not belong

Re: Linux init-time errors since elf upgrade

1995-11-29 Thread David Engel
BTW, now that I think about it, we should consider selectively relinking a few other programs such that other, non-essential shared libraries don't need to be in /lib (e.g. bash/readline). Surely we want readline on the root partition, simply to save space in general ? Having a

Re: Linux init-time errors since elf upgrade

1995-11-28 Thread David Engel
I've been on much needed and way too short vacation for the last week so please excuse me for not responding earlier. The error I see accurs during processing of /etc/initd/modules. Between Calculating dependencies ... and done, I see about lines of sh: /bin/nm cannot execute binary file.

Re: Linux init-time errors since elf upgrade

1995-11-23 Thread Alvar Bray
I've been seeing this since I installed the elf upgrade packages. I was hoping that someone with a better handle on it than me would report it, but I've seen no report. I'm not casting this as a bug report since I'm not sure where to attribute it. The error I see accurs during