Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 11:53:58 -0500 From: ravi pina <ravi@cow.org> To: "Noel V. Balansag" <pongkee@mail.fibertel.com.ar> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: help Message-ID: <20011122115358.W2155@happy.cow.org> In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.20011121200539.007a2650@pop.fibertel.com.ar>; from pongkee@mail.fibertel.com.ar on Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 08:05:39PM -0300 References: <3.0.6.32.20011121200539.007a2650@pop.fibertel.com.ar>
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On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 08:05:39PM -0300, Noel V. Balansag said at one point in time: > hi. > > everytime i try to 'startx', i get an error message ( > /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1:Shared Object "libXpm.so.4" not found ). this > occurred after i first moved the contents of X11R6 to a backup folder, then > installed XFree86 4.1.0 (didn't run),then uninstalled version4.1.0, then > moved back the contents to the original folder. > > i already tried to re-install the whole XFree863.3.6 distribution, and > gnome with sawfish, but i still get the same error. > > please help. i don't want to re-install the whole thing again just to > correct this. > > tia. startx is really a wrapper for xinit. try running `ldd` on your xinit binary and see where its looking for the libXpm.so.4 if you have it and its just not in the right place, you can move things around so it is in the right place for xinit. make sure you do a make clean on everything then try rebuilding xpm. -r -- echo "send pgp key" | mail ravi@cow.org When someone asks you, "A penny for your thoughts," and you put your two cents in, what happens to the other penny? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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