From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 13 12:04:45 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E08E106564A; Tue, 13 May 2008 12:04:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from glyn@millingtons.org) Received: from earth.karoo.kcom.com (earth.karoo.kcom.com [212.50.160.55]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9F7A8FC19; Tue, 13 May 2008 12:04:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from glyn@millingtons.org) X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.27,479,1204502400"; d="scan'208";a="314391327" Received: from unknown (HELO glynthebearded.millingtons.org) ([82.152.120.109]) by earth.karoo.kcom.com with ESMTP; 13 May 2008 13:04:43 +0100 Received: by glynthebearded.millingtons.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id BC3FC2283B; Tue, 13 May 2008 13:05:43 +0100 (BST) To: Kris Kennaway References: <86tzh2oc1t.fsf@nowhere.org> <48295334.2050308@FreeBSD.org> <86fxsmoaeb.fsf@nowhere.org> <482958E2.5050207@FreeBSD.org> Organization: Central Church, Torquay, U.K. X-Now-Playing: There's a deathly hush in the close tonight! X-Liturgical-Date: Optional Memorial: Our Lady of Fatima, A.D. 2008 From: Glyn Millington Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 13:05:43 +0100 In-Reply-To: <482958E2.5050207@FreeBSD.org> (Kris Kennaway's message of "Tue\, 13 May 2008 11\:01\:22 +0200") Message-ID: <864p92o1d4.fsf@nowhere.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Linux compat library error: ELF file OS ABI invalid X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: glyn@millingtons.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 12:04:45 -0000 Kris Kennaway writes: > Glyn Millington wrote: >> Kris Kennaway writes: >> >>> Glyn Millington wrote: >>>> FreeBSD 7.0 release, ports currently up-to-date >>>> Trying to launch Linux Open Office 2.4 I get the following error message >>>> ,---- >>>> | /usr/compat/linux/opt/openoffice.org2.4/program/soffice.bin: error while >>>> | loading shared libraries: /usr/local/lib/libXext.so.6: ELF file OS ABI >>>> | invalid >>>> `---- >>>> Now I *think* that what it ought to load is >>>> >>>> /usr/compat/linux/usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6 >>>> but it goes for the FreeBSD X extension lib instead. >>> kldload linux >>> or build it into your kernel. >> >> Thanks Kris - trouble is its already there! >> > No, that is not necessary. Next thing to check is that /usr/X11R6 is > before /usr/local in your linux ldconfig search path. Yes, it is right where it should be $cat /usr/compat/linux/etc/ld.so.conf include ld.so.conf.d/*.conf /lib /usr/lib /usr/local/lib that include statement leads to /usr/X11R6 many thanks atb Glyn