Bug 20866

Summary: On new installation packages depending on Compat22 do not install
Product: Base System Reporter: stork <stork>
Component: miscAssignee: freebsd-bugs (Nobody) <bugs>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me    
Priority: Normal    
Version: Unspecified   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   

Description stork 2000-08-26 19:00:01 UTC 
On a new installation following the defaults, packages requiring a.out fail to install.

Fix: 

After Compat22 is installed and before any package requiring a.out is installed, shut down and reboot.
How-To-Repeat: Do a new installation following the defaults and try installing KDE.
Comment 1 Sheldon Hearn freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2000-08-28 10:52:00 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: open->feedback

Could you describe what actually happens?  You sau that packages 
requiring a.out fail to install.  It would be helpful to know 
exactly what text you see. 

This isn't a known issue described in the release notes for 
4.0-RELEASE.  I do know, however, that I had problems when 
I did not install the compat22 distribution.
Comment 2 Sheldon Hearn 2000-08-28 14:40:24 UTC 
On Mon, 28 Aug 2000 06:19:06 MST, "stork" wrote:

> On Alt-F2 there was a message that Compat22 was needed, even though I had
> installed it. Clearly Compat22 when installed is not seen by the OS until
> the system reboots.
> 
> It might be a good idea to recompile for ELF some of the popular packages
> like KDE, so most people will not need Compat22.

Can you not send exact text messages?  Without them, this is difficult
to diagnose.

Also, there's not much inclination to diagnose your claims, because I
know that I managed to set up my wife's 4.0-RELEASE workstation with KDE
without any such problem.

Ciao,
Sheldon.
Comment 3 Sheldon Hearn 2000-08-28 16:21:50 UTC 
On Mon, 28 Aug 2000 09:16:50 CST, Steve Passe wrote:

> If memory serves, I have seen this failure when attempting to install 4.0
> with netscape.  I had selected all the compat libs as part of the install,
> along with netscape.  I can't remember if the problem was that netscape was
> "installed" before the compat libs, or if ldconfig wasn't run after installing
> the compat libs, but it definately failed for lack of the a.out libc.  Re-
> running sysinstall/pkgs after the basic install (and most likely a reboot)
> properly installed netscape from the same media.

Thanks, but what we really need now is concrete stuff.  Both your input
and the originator's input have been pretty vague.  Since some of us
have managed to get this working without a problem, what we need now is
to be shown exactly how to make it "not work". :-)

Ciao,
Sheldon.
Comment 4 Gregory Bond 2000-08-29 01:04:31 UTC 
I think this is the same problem I reported in conf/19509 which has a more 
detailed repeat-by.
Comment 5 Sheldon Hearn 2000-08-29 09:34:30 UTC 
On Tue, 29 Aug 2000 11:04:31 +1100, Gregory Bond wrote:

> I think this is the same problem I reported in conf/19509 which has a more 
> detailed repeat-by.

I think so too.  I don't remember installing netscape in the beginning,
or maybe I installed the linux-netscape, which obviously doesn't need
aout support.

This additional detail helps a lot.  Now we need to check whether the
problem persists in 4.1-RELEASE. :-)

Paul, I'm going to close this PR as a duplicate of conf/19509, now that
we know exactly what the problem is.

Ciao,
Sheldon.
Comment 6 Sheldon Hearn freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2000-08-29 09:34:46 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: feedback->closed

Duplicate of conf/19509.