From owner-freebsd-current Mon Dec 11 15:24:28 2000 From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 11 15:24:26 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E20AD37B400 for ; Mon, 11 Dec 2000 15:24:25 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 38946 invoked by uid 100); 11 Dec 2000 23:24:19 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14901.25123.496388.691274@guru.mired.org> Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 17:24:19 -0600 (CST) To: obrien@freebsd.org Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Applix problems (Was: /usr/local abuse) In-Reply-To: <20001211105658.A97948@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <14899.62738.768609.598990@nomad.yogotech.com> <14899.62189.243395.903919@nomad.yogotech.com> <14900.2598.958785.326648@guru.mired.org> <14900.19591.200496.869754@nomad.yogotech.com> <14900.21804.426787.246572@guru.mired.org> <14900.23606.685940.408212@nomad.yogotech.com> <20001211163133.A19495@gurney.reilly.home> <14900.26957.915555.841958@guru.mired.org> <20001211003425.C89853@dragon.nuxi.com> <14900.57687.565806.38745@guru.mired.org> <20001211105658.A97948@dragon.nuxi.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG David O'Brien types: > On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 08:14:47AM -0600, Mike Meyer wrote: > > The problem is that the shared libraries aren't getting found when I > > run the applix binary after a reboot. > Why do you say that? Where is the error message?? I say that because 1) that was VistaSource support's diagnosis, and 2) doing the ldconfig fixes the problem. The error message is in last Sunday, and not currently recreatable. > > /usr/local/applix/axdata/axshlib are ELF shared objects. I haven't > > investigated further. If someone got an explanation, I'm all ears. > Applix sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH in order to find its shared libs. EXACTLY > how are you [trying to] run it? The sequence goes like this: middle click to open a 9menu window. Left click on the word "applix", which causes 9menu to start a shell running the command "applix". The shell finds /usr/local/bin/applix on my path, and runs *that*. At that point, you're running VistaSource's software, so they should give you the details. After rebooting last Sunday, I did this - and the disk drives flashed, and the cpu load went up a bit, and then it all settled back down. I then followed the instructions I got from VistaSource for shutting applix down after it fails to start, which is to find and kill all the processes that have "applix" in the command line and remove the sockets it creates in /tmp. After that, I su, grep for ldconfig in /etc/rc, type "ldconfig " at a root prompt, copy and paste the ldconfig line (which has axshlib in it" to that prompt, and hit return. Then repeat the process to launch it, only this time I get a splash screen (why do people want to do that bit of WBD on Unix?) and the Applixware Office Iconbar before the disk thrashing ends. And that's all the details I have.