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From: root@datlog.co.uk (Charlie Root)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: What is ld.so?
Date: 1 Apr 1994 19:24:29 GMT
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Just a minor addition...
/usr/share also needs the chmod 755 treatment, or the man pages will not
be accessible...
chmod 755 /usr/share
Thankyou Garrett... [midway through trying to fix a page fault panic on a
new system... probably bad RAM timings, but...]
Kevin.
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Garrett Wollman (wollman@ginger.lcs.mit.edu) wrote:
: Robert Henry Birlingmair <rbirling@ee.umr.edu> wrote:
: >I just installed the FreeBSD 2.1 BETA binaries from ftp.cdrom.com.
: >When I try to run several programs, I get "No ld.so". What does this
: >mean and how do I fix it? Thanks.
: > What does this mean
: What it means is that you tried to run a shared-library binary (i.e.,
: anything in /usr/bin or /usr/sbin), and the library startup code was
: not able to load `ld.so'.
: > What is ld.so?
: ld.so is the dynamic run-time link editor, which is primarily
: responsible for the loading and relocation of shared libraries. A
: shared-library executable contains a startup routine which attempts to
: load ld.so into its address space, and then execute it; ld.so then
: finishes the linking process which was only partially done by `ld'
: when the program was compiled.
: > how do I fix it?
: There's a bug in the BETA distribution filesets, which caused the
: /usr/lib directory, and a few others, to get extracted with the wrong
: permissions. The command `chmod 755 /usr/lib /usr/libexec /usr/bin
: /usr/sbin' should fix it for you, if this is indeed what you are
: suffering from.
: -GAWollman