From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 7 05:54:04 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id FAA27318 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 7 Feb 1997 05:54:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from super-g.inch.com (super-g.com [204.178.32.161]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id FAA27304 for ; Fri, 7 Feb 1997 05:54:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (spork@localhost) by super-g.inch.com (8.8.5/8.6.9) with SMTP id IAA02212; Fri, 7 Feb 1997 08:55:59 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 7 Feb 1997 08:55:59 -0500 (EST) From: spork X-Sender: spork@super-g.inch.com To: Doug White cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 22GAMMA-020697--Lib problems galore In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Oh yeah, I thought a nice fresh start might clear things up, but no go. I did do this, and it's scary, but it's working: cd /usr/lib for i in `ls /usr/local/lib` do ln -s $i . done and the same for the Xlibs. It's like ldconfig is broken for me, and I don't have a clue why. Other than this, the upgrade was flawless, I hardly even had to touch /etc afterwards... Charles HELP! On Thu, 6 Feb 1997, Doug White wrote: > On Thu, 6 Feb 1997, spork wrote: > > > This is a tough one... I just upgraded from 2.1.6 to today's 2.2GAMMA > > release, and it went really smooth, except for some odd problem with the > > libraries. > > > > Anything that needs a lib outside of /usr/lib fails, even though ldconfig > > -r shows all of the others (/usr/X11R6, /usr/local/lib, etc...). In rc, I > > see ldconfig run with all the extra libs, but for some reason none of the > > programs seem to know about it. > > Odd. Have you tried rebooting? I'm on the same GAMMA and it's working > great -- even fixed my XWindows/ATI/ASUS board problem! > > Did you make sure the libraries actually exist? :) > > Doug White | University of Oregon > Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major > >