From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 8 3:30:23 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from opensource.ee.ethz.ch (opensource-01.ee.ethz.ch [129.132.7.153]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9456737B407 for ; Fri, 8 Jun 2001 03:30:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sb@opensource.ee.ethz.ch) Received: by en5.engelschall.com (Sendmail 8.9.2/smtpfeed 1.06) id MAA11270; Fri, 8 Jun 2001 12:26:52 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2001 12:26:52 +0200 From: Steffen Beyer To: Mikko Tyolajarvi Cc: alex@frustum.clara.co.uk, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Running netscape causes "libXt.so.6 bad magic number" error message Message-ID: <20010608122651.A10962@engelschall.com> Reply-To: Steffen Beyer References: <20010607134322.A8672@engelschall.com>; <20010607175315.A3080@frustum.clara.co.uk> <200106071837.f57Ib3E33662@explorer.rsa.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95i In-Reply-To: <200106071837.f57Ib3E33662@explorer.rsa.com>; from Mikko Tyolajarvi on Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 11:37:03AM -0700 Organization: Steffen Beyer X-Web-Homepage: http://www.engelschall.com/u/sb/ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello Mikko Tyolajarvi, in a previous mail you wrote: > Make sure you don't have LD_LIBRARY_PATH set when running netscape. > If it contains /usr/X11R6/lib, the netscape binary will prefer to load > libraries from there instead of the "aout" ones it really needs. > > For normal operation you really shouldn't need LD_LIBRARY_PATH anyway. *** BINGO!!! *** After commenting out my setting of LD_LIBRARY_PATH in /etc/profile (I am using an old /etc/profile from another machine - you probably know that, too - always carrying with you the configuration that worked (never change a working configuration!) :-) ) everything worked absolutely flawlessly! And now I also understand why everything worked right from the start on the other machine - I must have changed the /etc/profile there, more thoroughly than on this machine! So thanks *a lot* for your decisive help!! Best regards, -- Steffen Beyer http://www.engelschall.com/u/sb/whoami/ (Who am I) http://www.engelschall.com/u/sb/gallery/ (Fotos Brasil, USA, ...) http://www.engelschall.com/u/sb/download/ (Free Perl and C Software) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message