From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 27 13:51:10 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA26383 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 27 Mar 1997 13:51:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from goodall.u.washington.edu (durang@goodall.u.washington.edu [140.142.12.163]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA26377 for ; Thu, 27 Mar 1997 13:51:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (durang@localhost) by goodall.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW96.12/8.8.4+UW97.03) with SMTP id NAA31086; Thu, 27 Mar 1997 13:51:00 -0800 Date: Thu, 27 Mar 1997 13:51:00 -0800 (PST) From: "K. Marsh" To: Carey Nairn cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: 2.2.1-RELEASE and xdm In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19970327153157.006ef314@falcon.pacit.tas.gov.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 27 Mar 1997, Carey Nairn wrote: > I just went through the upgrade to 2.2.1R with one of my machines and now > have a problem running xdm. The error I get is: > > ld.so failed: Can't find sharted library "libXmu.so.6.0" > > This library is certainly there with global read permissions and also > appears when I run ldconfig -r. Had a very similar problem. The key is to figure out (or guess) which directory xdm is looking in for the file, and put a symbolic link there, linking to its actual location. my libXmu.so.6.0 is in /usr/local/X11R6/lib/libXmu.so.6.0, where /usr/X11R6 -> /usr/local/X11R6. _ _ __ _ _ / \ / \ / | / \ / \ University of Washington () | | / / / / | \ | | Chemical Engineering /\ | |/ / / /_ | \ \ | | | / / | | |\ \ | | | \ \ __| | | \ \| | | |\ \ \ \ | | \ | I bask in my own insignificance. | | \ \ \ \ | | \ | \_/ \_\ \_| \_/ \_/