Hi Stephen, Stephen P. Molnar:
On 01/03/2019 02:42 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote:OK. I happen to have Debian Stretch in a virtual machine for testing purposes.On Thu, Jan 03, 2019 at 02:30:49PM -0500, Stephen P. Molnar wrote:root@AbNormal:/home/comp# ls -ld / /etc /etc/ld.* drwxr-xr-x 26 root root 4096 Dec 19 13:17 / drwxr-xr-x 134 root root 12288 Jan 3 09:43 /etc -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 237114 Dec 26 14:47 /etc/ld.so.cache -rw------- 1 root root 12288 Jan 3 12:49 /etc/ld.so.cache~ -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 34 Apr 9 2017 /etc/ld.so.conf drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 22 07:41 /etc/ld.so.conf.dWell... /etc isn't missing, at least. When I run "strace /sbin/ldconfig" on my system, I see this line: rename("/etc/ld.so.cache~", "/etc/ld.so.cache") = 0 So, it seems that your ldconfig is generating the /etc/ld.so.cache~ file, or at least a partial one (12288 is a suspiciously ROUND number, beingprecisely 3 times 4 kilobytes). And then ... something bad happens beforeit can rename it to /etc/ld.so.cache. Or finish writing it. Are you out of disk space? Granted, I would have expected a DIFFERENT error message in that case, but it's a thing to check. You might consider simply copying the /usr/bin/strace file from a different Debian system onto this one, just so you can run it.strace is in /usr/bin on there. I copied it to the host and ran it. comp@AbNormal:~$ sudo ./strace [sudo] password for comp: ./strace: must have PROG [ARGS] or -p PID Try './strace -h' for more information. I'm totally at sea here, which switch should iI use? Also: comp@AbNormal:~$ df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on udev 3.9G 0 3.9G 0% /dev tmpfs 789M 18M 772M 3% /run/dev/sda1 23G 23G 0 100% / <- could this e a problem?tmpfs 3.9G 12K 3.9G 1% /dev/shm tmpfs 5.0M 8.0K 5.0M 1% /run/lock tmpfs 3.9G 0 3.9G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup /dev/sda7 1.9G 6.5M 1.7G 1% /tmp /dev/sda5 9.2G 6.0G 2.8G 69% /var /dev/sda8 416G 103G 292G 27% /home /dev/sdc1 20G 301M 19G 2% /sdc1 /dev/sdc2 439G 169G 270G 39% /sdc2 /dev/sdb1 1.8T 288G 1.5T 17% /sdb1 tmpfs 789M 4.0K 789M 1% /run/user/110 tmpfs 789M 28K 789M 1% /run/user/1000 I have all of my application software in /home/comp/Apps
Your root partition is out of space,>> /dev/sda1 23G 23G 0 100% / <- could this so there won't be any writing to /etc , which is on this partition, until You get rid of some data, e.g. in /root.
Then try again, what You've been told in this thread. kind regards readU Frank