Hi Folks,
    Yep, this is it. COMPAT_FREEBSD option is the problem. Without this o=
ption=20
I now have a happy linux emulation environment.
    Many thanks to all those who helped with this issue. It is much=20
appreciated :-)

Take care,
=09Murray

On Tue, 26 Nov 2002 10:27 pm, you wrote:
> Bah, so this may be actually problem of compat/freebsd, which has
> too loose check and mistakens the Linux binary as FreeBSD
> (and runs it under FreeBSD emulation). I recall there was
> some change in compat/freebsd regarding the signature recently;
> perhaps that makes the stuff mistakely match certain Linux binaries.
>
> Jaromir
>
> Murray Armfield wrote:
> [ Charset ISO-8859-1 unsupported, converting... ]
>
> > On Tue, 26 Nov 2002 09:43 pm, you wrote:
> > > >   2268 ktrace   NAMI  "/usr/pkg/emul/linux/sbin/ldconfig"
> > > >   2268 ldconfig EMUL  "freebsd"
> > >
> > > I can't help feeling that a binary in emul/linux shouldn't be
> > > running under EMUL freebsd...
> >
> > Using the same linux emul stuff and kernels and trying ktrace on
> > /usr/pkg/emul/linux/bin/pwd gives...
> >
> > 2493 ktrace   EMUL  "netbsd"
> >   2493 ktrace   CALL  execve(0xbfbfba26,0xbfbfb930,0xbfbfb938)
> >   2493 ktrace   NAMI  "./pwd"
> >   2493 ktrace   NAMI  "/emul/linux/lib/ld-linux.so.2"
> >   2493 ktrace   NAMI  "/emul/linux"
> >   2493 ktrace   NAMI  "/emul/linux/lib/ld-linux.so.2"
> >   2493 pwd      EMUL  "linux"
> >   2493 pwd      RET   execve -1 errno -2 No such file or directory
> >   2493 pwd      CALL  uname(0xbfbfb4fc)
> >   2493 pwd      RET   uname 0
> >
> > etc. Which has the emulation correctly selected. So, ldconfig binary
> > selects wrong emulation, pwd doesn't. Further testing here may indica=
te
> > only fresh installs are reporting any lossage; ldconfig may be the on=
ly
> > binary affected. On a quick check, these seemed OK...
> > =09pwd, false, true, ldd, test, printf
> >
> > Not sure how to procede from here. :-(
> >
> > Take care,
> > =09Murray