Date: Mon, 22 Dec 1997 21:45:03 -0600 (CST) From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@futuresouth.com> To: Carson Saunders <casaunde@vt.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help with Xwin Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971222214217.11353B-100000@shell.futuresouth.com> In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.16.19971222134559.32c7663e@mail.vt.edu>
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On Mon, 22 Dec 1997, Carson Saunders wrote: > I recently installed Free BSD 2.2.1 onto my computer but I cant seem to get > X windows to run. Whenever I try startx I get an error message about some > shared library that couldnt be found. Then I went into the lib directory > and it was sitting right there. Why is this happening? What should I do? > Im very new to this so you may have to break it down into dummy terms for > me. Any help is appreciated. Thanks in advance. OK; this is a step in the installation which isn't ever done right. I spent 2 horus banging my head against this the first (and the second) time I installed X. Type this: ldconfig -m /usr/X11R6/lib The problem is, X searches through the ldconfig path for libraries, and it wasn't updated to include the X11R6 directory. *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* | FreeBSD; the way computers were meant to be | * "The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, is * | that I haven't figured out how to light the middle yet."| * fullermd@futuresouth.com :-} MAtthew Fuller * | http://keystone.westminster.edu/~fullermd | *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
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