Re: Problem with "chown"

[Hisashi T Fujinaka <htodd%twofifty.com@localhost>]

On Wed, 27 Jun 2012, Hisashi T Fujinaka wrote:

> On Wed, 27 Jun 2012, David Lord wrote:
>
> > Problem with "chown"
> >
> > I've found that I have two files on with same name
> > on several of my systems:
> >
> >
> > -r-xr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  9256 Feb  2 16:54 /usr/sbin/chown
> > MD5 (/usr/sbin/chown) = fce92081f7907b04f0063e2f17f7f4e6
> >  9256  Feb  2  16:54  /usr/sbin/chown
> > above seems to work as expected
> >
> >
> > -r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  9193 May 23 06:02 /sbin/chown
> > MD5 (/sbin/chown) = bd76dbd35bd23c59dbf224c831387a86
> >  9193  May 23  06:02  /sbin/chown
> > this gives an error
> > /sbin/chown: Undefined PLT symbol "_libc_init" (symnum =17)
> >
> >
> > I've not yet tracked down where the broken version
> > comes from, cdrom or build from source or other.
> >
> >
> > Anyone else seen this?
>
> Yes, when kernel and userland got out of sync. I had to reinstall.

I can't remember if it was when I went from 5 -> 6beta2 or when I went
from 6beta2 back to 5.

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