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

1995-11-29 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

Re: Linux init-time errors since elf upgrade

1995-11-29 Thread Ian Jackson
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

1995-11-28 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 f

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 p

Linux init-time errors since elf upgrade

1995-11-23 Thread Bill Mitchell
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 processing of /etc