From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 31 12:16:37 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA07546 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 31 Mar 1997 12:16:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from hudsucker.gamespot.com (hudsucker.gamespot.com [206.169.18.74]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA07539 for ; Mon, 31 Mar 1997 12:16:34 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jsd@localhost) by hudsucker.gamespot.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA00259 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 31 Mar 1997 12:16:34 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.0 [p0] on FreeBSD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Mon, 31 Mar 1997 12:13:22 -0800 (PST) Organization: spotmedia communications From: random junk To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: libXmu problem - solved! Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk i tried all the suggestions posted here. the permissions were fine. copying the library from /usr/X11R6/lib to /usr/local/bin didn't fix it. no amount of mangling LD_LIBRARY_PATH helped. the solution - halt the system and do a cold power cycle. (lucky coincidental timing - i had to move my machine to another desk.) when i powered it back up, everything worked perfectly. and ldd shows that it is picking up libXmu from /usr/X11R6/lib, not /usr/local/lib! go figure. Jon Drukman jsd@gamespot.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- System Administrator SpotMedia Communications