Shared object "libsys.so.7" not found

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Abhid

Yesterday I tried to upgrade FreeBSD from version 13.x to 15.0-RELEASE However, I now get this error :

freebsd-update ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libsys.so.7" not found

'What I've tried so far' :

I tried Craig's solution mentioned here : https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=289769

But that entire rescue path mentioned, doesn't exist. Also, there's no Wi-Fi connectivity and so, even though if the rescue path were to be created, how would I download the patch ?
 
Abhid said:
how would I download the patch ?
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It's not a 'patch', it's a script that tries to fix the issue.

Anyway, you can download it on a different machine and put it on a USB stick (FAT32 formatted). Then copy it from the USB stick onto the machine.
 
Hi SirDice. I did put the file on a FAT32 formatted USB drive. Then I did the following steps :


/rescue/mount



ls /dev/da*


But it still shows
ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libsys.so.7" not found, required by "libc.so.7"

How do I go past this ?
 
Abhid said:
Yesterday I tried to upgrade FreeBSD from version 13.x to 15.0-RELEASE However, I now get this error :

freebsd-update ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libsys.so.7" not found

'What I've tried so far' :

I tried Craig's solution mentioned here : https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=289769

But that entire rescue path mentioned, doesn't exist. Also, there's no Wi-Fi connectivity and so, even though if the rescue path were to be created, how would I download the patch ?
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upgrading from release 13 to release 15 is not supported?
you should upgrade to release 14 first, and the to release 15.

It's unix
get yourself a version of libsys.so.7
copy it to the /lib/libsys.so.7
reboot

One of the fine things about freebsd is,
that we know, how it works.
There is not so much miracles involved

My best bet would be,
hope you have a backup of your /home?

Install from scratch
copy back your home files
 
Thanks bakul and edxfs for your suggestions. I learnt how to use /rescue/ls and other commands within /rescue.

However, I cannot mount the USB drive nor even the harddisk because the following command displays some error :

/rescue/zfs set readonly=off zroot/ROOT/default

So, I've decided to boot via a Live CD, navigate to the right folder and copy that libsys.so.7

from my USB drive....

....to that folder in my harddisk.

I hope it works.
 
I booted via a Live CD and first tried to mount my hard disk. I've attached the screenshot of all commands from
Code: 
gpart show
to
Code: 
mount
below :

The mount command shows "invalid argument".

What should I do further ?
 

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Try
fsck /dev/ada0p2 # in case the system was not properly shutdown
mount /dev/ada0p2 /mnt
One you copy the missing file, umount it before rebooting.

And it looks like you have no EFI partition (should be 200MB or more). Hopefully freebsd-update will handle non-EFI systems -- may be other experienced freebsd users can help you as I have forgotten all about this case!
 
Thanks bakul and SirDice . Your suggestions worked. I also made my hard-disk read-writable by this command (in case some lost soul needs it) :
Code: 
/rescue/mount -uw /

Now I have base.txz in my /lib/ folder, as can be seen in attached screenshot (its in top-left corner).

But when I type the command :
Code: 
/rescue/tar xzf /lib/base.txz /lib/libsys.so.7

It displays an error :
tar : /lib/libsys.so.7 : Not found in archive

Some other variations like xJf etc also display same or similar errors.
 

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cd to / and try “/rescue/tar xzf /lib/base.txz ./lib/libsys.so.7” as lib path in the txz file is relative, not absolute. But why do you have distribution sets in /lib? I notice a lot of other files and dir in your /lib that makes me think may be you untarred a lot of things in /lib.

Looks like you made a number of mistakes and you may make it worse trying to fix them…. Your best bet might be to save (& verify!) your critical data on an sdcard or usb disk, save the list of pkgs you have and install from scratch and then restore this data & reinstall packages. Save /etc and /usr/local/etc as well.
 
I tried your command and it still gave the same error. I even tried ./usr/lib/libsys.so.7 but to no avail.

Then on giving up for the day, I simply typed "exit" and it booted up !

I ejected the CD and USB drive and restarted it. It booted up again !

Out of curiosity, I navigated to /lib/ folder and saw that libsys.so.7 is finally there ! Maybe one if those tar commands did work, and extracted the libsys.so.7 file.

There are many other folders and files, though.

Thanks for your help again, bakul.

P.S: Now, programs like Firefox and LibreOffice simply don't open on double-clicking their icons. Now I've to get that working. But this particular problem is solved.
 
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