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Date:      Fri, 28 Mar 1997 23:54:26 +0000 ()
From:      Carey Nairn <cpn@ccd.tas.gov.au>
To:        "K. Marsh" <durang@u.washington.edu>
Cc:        Carey Nairn <Carey.Nairn@ccd.tas.gov.au>, questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 2.2.1-RELEASE and xdm
Message-ID:  <Pine.NEB.3.95.970328235114.429A-100000@krondor.cpn.org.au>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.A41.3.95b.970327134656.22868A-100000@goodall.u.washington.edu>

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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  




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