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From: Andre LeClaire <andreleclaire@sprintmail.com>
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Thanks Dave, you're exactly right! The permissions were set correctly for
/usr/X11R6/bin, but not for the rest of the /usr/X11R6 subdirectories. I
think this is going to be a FAQ when the 3.0-971225-SNAP cdrom is
released.

Thanks again,

Andre

> > If the mailing list archive search were available, I could probably
> > figure this one out on my own. But since it's not, I need some help ...
> > I recently installed 3.0-971225-SNAP, and cannot run X as a user - I get
> > "ld.so failed: Can't find shared library "libXmu.so.6.0"". It runs just
> > fine as root, however. I can see that libXmu.so.6.0 *is* indeed there in
> > /usr/X11R6/lib, and it shows up in the output of ldconfig -r. Is there
> > some configuration step I've missed or what??
> 
> And what are the permissions of /usr/X11R6/lib/libXmu.so.6.0?  I
> suspect your regular user can't read either the library or perhaps all
> of /usr/X11R6/lib.
> 
> -Dave