From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 22 19:45:12 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id TAA26104 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 22 Dec 1997 19:45:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from shell.futuresouth.com (shell.futuresouth.com [207.141.254.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA26097 for ; Mon, 22 Dec 1997 19:45:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from fullermd@futuresouth.com) Received: from shell.futuresouth.com (mail.futuresouth.com [207.141.254.21]) by shell.futuresouth.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id VAA12226; Mon, 22 Dec 1997 21:45:03 -0600 (CST) Date: Mon, 22 Dec 1997 21:45:03 -0600 (CST) From: "Matthew D. Fuller" To: Carson Saunders cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help with Xwin In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.16.19971222134559.32c7663e@mail.vt.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 | *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*