From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 8 23:28:13 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from axl.noc.iafrica.com (axl.noc.iafrica.com [196.31.1.175]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03EFA155B5 for ; Wed, 8 Dec 1999 23:28:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sheldonh@axl.noc.iafrica.com) Received: from sheldonh (helo=axl.noc.iafrica.com) by axl.noc.iafrica.com with local-esmtp (Exim 3.11 #1) id 11vxzI-000ArF-00; Thu, 09 Dec 1999 09:27:40 +0200 From: Sheldon Hearn To: gherscu@ucdavis.edu Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: x question In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 08 Dec 1999 23:03:29 PST." <384F5441.90EF154E@ucdavis.edu> Date: Thu, 09 Dec 1999 09:27:40 +0200 Message-ID: <41740.944724460@axl.noc.iafrica.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 08 Dec 1999 23:03:29 PST, Gabriel Herscu wrote: > Yes, I know that's a long time ago in computer years but I have a > question. I am trying to get my X windows system running. I have > followed the procedure in "The Complete FreeBSD" from Walnut Creek > CDRom. When I try to run xinit or startx, I get the message ' Id.so > failed: can't find shared library "libXmu.so.6.0" '. I have the file > in my lib directory under /usr/X11R6/ but it doesn't seem to be able > to find it. Presumably, you found the library in /usr/X11R6/lib ? If so, you need to add that path to the default search path for ldconfig. You should have a line in /etc/rc.conf that looks something like: ldconfig_paths="/usr/lib/compat /usr/X11R6/lib /usr/local/lib" I suspect you're missing the "/usr/X11R6/lib" part. :-) Later, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message