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Freebsd 7.1-RC2: Error 'closefrom' After Updating From 4.2 to 4.3

mzorzi
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

On Freebsd 7.1-RC2: After upgrading from splunk-4.2.3-105575 to splunk-4.3-115073 an error was returned with Undefined symbol "closefrom". I need to know what I can do to recover from this.

Checking prerequisites...

Checking http port [8000]: open

Checking mgmt port [8089]: open

Checking configuration... Done.

Checking index directory...

Validated databases: _audit _blocksignature _internal _thefishbucket ciscoswitches firewall history hotran ironport junos main os summary webcluster

Done

Unexpected EOF from process runner child!

helper process seems to have died (child exited with code 1)!

Error from ProcessRunner helper process: /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: /opt/splunk/bin/splunkd: Undefined symbol "closefrom"

SSL certificate generation failed.

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mzorzi
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

Upgrading FreeBSD to 7.3-RELEASE-p10 has resolved this issue.

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