From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Oct 20 7:33:33 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mailgw02.execpc.com (mailgw02.execpc.com [169.207.3.78]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBD511BA7A for ; Wed, 20 Oct 1999 07:33:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hamilton@pobox.com) Received: from woodstock.monkey.net (rampa-2-16.mdm.mkt.execpc.com [169.207.120.144]) by mailgw02.execpc.com (8.9.1) id JAA24968; Wed, 20 Oct 1999 09:31:26 -0500 Received: from pobox.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodstock.monkey.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 830526D; Wed, 20 Oct 1999 09:35:04 -0500 (CDT) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/16/1999 To: Chuck Robey Cc: safe user , freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: xpdf and the wholesale destruction of X-Windows In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 19 Oct 1999 22:47:42 EDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 09:35:04 -0500 From: Jon Hamilton Message-Id: <19991020143504.830526D@woodstock.monkey.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In message , Chuck Rob ey wrote: } On Tue, 19 Oct 1999, safe user wrote: } } > Let me clarify, then. } > } > I do a "make clean" in xpdf, and it does a clean in X11.6 also. } > Did it kill X itself? No. But for whatever reason, suddenly } > the following commands failed with "ld.so: can't locate xxxx.so.n.mm" } > messages: } } Dear safe user, the reason he gave you that response is because no one } else has had that experience. } } Is your X stuff in /usr/X11R6? Did libraries in /usr/X11R6/lib disappear? } This would mean, generally, that something is *tremendously* broken in } your entire installation, which is the reason that we're maybe wondering } if it was only a head-space problem. See? He said elsewhere that this was a 3.2 thing, and I don't have anything around from that vintage, so can't check, but it almost sounds to me like one of the ports has done an ldconfig at some point with the wrong directories. -- Jon Hamilton hamilton@pobox.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message