From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 29 10:20:41 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp-out1.bellatlantic.net (smtp-out1.bellatlantic.net [199.45.39.156]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C9DC14D96 for ; Mon, 29 Nov 1999 10:20:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from j_mckitrick@bigfoot.com) Received: from bigfoot.com (client-151-204-196-129.bellatlantic.net [151.204.196.129]) by smtp-out1.bellatlantic.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id NAA09113; Mon, 29 Nov 1999 13:18:39 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3842C3ED.275AEECC@bigfoot.com> Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1999 13:20:29 -0500 From: Jonathon McKitrick X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.3-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Michael Lucas , questions Subject: Re: missing X library? References: <199911291744.MAA24154@blackhelicopters.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Well, you were right... i reinstalled X and all seems to be OK. We'll see. I guess i really need to pay more attention and find out what is going on in my linux compat directory. I didn't think i would need any linux X support if i already had it in FreeBSD. That seems redundant. Michael Lucas wrote: > > Well, in my efforts to remove wordperfect i shot myself in the foot. I > > ran a 'rpm -e --nodeps < filelist' to remove all rpms, which i thought > > were only for wordperfect. But now xterm and x won't run because of the > > following error from ld-elf.so.1: > > > > shared object "libXmu.s0.6" not found > > > > Where do i reinstall this from? > > And next time i do this, what is the command that will help me find files > > like this on my own? > > > > -jm > > Hello, > > Without more information it's hard to state what exactly happened. > Also, I'm coming in late to this thread. Given all that, here's my > Best Guess (tm)... > > When you installed WordPerfect, did you use RPM's --root /compat/linux > option? > > It's possible that the RPM remove process fried everything that it > required to run including, in your case, the X window system. > > I.e., my system has: > > moneysink~;locate -i libXmu.so.6.0 > /usr/X11R6/lib/aout/libXmu.so.6.0 > /usr/compat/linux/usr/X11R6/lib/libXmu.so.6.0 > /usr/compat/linux/usr/i486-linux-libc5/lib/libXmu.so.6.0 > moneysink~; > > If you fry the one under /usr/X11R6, you're toast. > > If you fry the one under /usr/compat/linux, you're fine. > > My guess is that you deleted your native FreeBSD libXmu.so.6.0. > > Best suggestion; remove and reinstall X. > > Sorry, > ==ml To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message