Re: failure reading ld.so

[Chuck Yerkes <chuck+obsd@2003.snew.com>]

Quoting Jay Moore (jay_m0@bellsouth.net):
> On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 13:57:37 -0400, you wrote:
> 
> >Hello misc,
> >
> >Still a relative newbie.  I am trying to patch my 3.3 box with the latest ssh patch.  After untarring the source tarball, I get "failure reading ld.so" when I perform basic command such as "mkdir" and "netstat".
> >
> >Please help...
> 
> I feel your pain. This is likely the result of untar'ing the file
> src.tar.gz in the /usr directory (you shoulda' put it in /usr/src
> instead). I did the same thing last week. Turns out this happens
> pretty frequently. 

Well, perhaps twice.
Many of us run "tar tvzf $FILE" before doing the "tar xzpf $FILE"
to see what's what.