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.d
Well... /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, being
precisely 3 times 4 kilobytes). And then ... something bad happens before
it 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.