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From: Carey Nairn <cpn@ccd.tas.gov.au>
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To: "K. Marsh" <durang@u.washington.edu>
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Subject: Re: 2.2.1-RELEASE and xdm
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On Thu, 27 Mar 1997, K. Marsh wrote:

> 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.
> 

I have my X11R6 tree rooted under /usr not /usr/local so I don't think
that is the problem.  I also tried extracting the binaries from the 2.1.6
CD over the top of the 2.2 installation but that hasn't made any
difference either.  I'm pretty well stumped.

cheers,
Carey