Re: FreeBSD 12.2 can not be upgraded

From: David Christensen <dpchrist_at_holgerdanske.com>
Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2022 05:56:15 UTC 
On 9/4/22 13:31, Paul Mather wrote:
 > I don't understand your comment about /rescue/sh in the first sentence
 > in the quoted paragraph above.  The binaries in /rescue are statically
 > linked, so I don't see how they depend on /libexec.  In fact, ldd will
 > even complain if you run it against /rescue/sh because it is not a
 > dynamically-linked executable.  Furthermore, file(1) will include
 > "statically linked" in its output when run against /rescue/sh.
 > (Disclaimer: I don't have any 12.x systems any more to double-check,
 > but it is true for FreeBSD 13.1 and historically has been the case for
 > as long as I know.  See man rescue(8) for details.)

Here is what one of my 12.3-R systems has to say about /rescue/sh:

2022-09-04 22:08:51 dpchrist@f3 ~
$ freebsd-version ; uname -a
12.3-RELEASE-p6
FreeBSD f3.tracy.holgerdanske.com 12.3-RELEASE-p6 FreeBSD 
12.3-RELEASE-p6 GENERIC  amd64

2022-09-04 22:09:02 dpchrist@f3 ~
$ ldd /rescue/sh
ldd: /rescue/sh: not a dynamic ELF executable

2022-09-04 22:09:04 dpchrist@f3 ~
$ file /rescue/sh
/rescue/sh: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (FreeBSD), 
statically linked, for FreeBSD 12.3, FreeBSD-style, stripped


David