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From: "Bradley D. LaRonde" <brad@ltc.com>
To: "Girish Gulawani" <girishvg@yahoo.com>,
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Subject: Re: Error loading shared libraries.
Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2002 20:38:32 -0500
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Girish Gulawani" <girishvg@yahoo.com>
To: "MIPS/Linux List (SGI)" <linux-mips@oss.sgi.com>
Sent: Saturday, March 16, 2002 8:32 PM
Subject: Error loading shared libraries.


>
> Hello, all.
> I know this is kind of weird problem at this point of time. I have a MIPS
> board booted up with Linux 2.4.3 kernel. But it fails on the "init". I get
> an error in the init process:
>
> init: error in loading shared libraries
> libutil.so.1: cannot map file data: Bad file descriptor ...
>
> The compiler used is EGCS 2.91.66, downloaded from the net.

What glibc?  Could this be the MIPS base address bug?  Maybe this patch by
H. J. Lu. (updated by me) will help:

http://www.ltc.com/~brad/mips/glibc-2.2.3-mips-base-addr-got.diff

Regards,
Brad