From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 7 04:54:31 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA24703 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 7 Feb 1999 04:54:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from neptune.psn.net (neptune.psn.net [207.211.58.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA24696 for ; Sun, 7 Feb 1999 04:54:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chemtechweb@psn.net) Received: from 1-21.phx.psn.net ([209.63.50.149] helo=psn.net) by neptune.psn.net with esmtp (PSN Internet Service 2.10 #1) for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG id 109TjH-0003HN-00; Sun, 7 Feb 1999 05:54:27 -0700 Message-ID: <36BD8D5C.108C9141@psn.net> Date: Sun, 07 Feb 1999 05:55:56 -0700 From: Emmanuel Gravel Reply-To: chemtechweb@psn.net Organization: Orbit Communications X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.08 [en] (Win98; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ld.so can't find libraries References: <36BD8B03.4588C8FA@psn.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Emmanuel Gravel wrote: > > I've checked the ld.so and ldconfig man pages to see if there was > anything I could do. I have just redone the locate database with > /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb so I know the locate database is current. > When I try running startx, I get immediately an error message saying: > > ld.so failed: Can't find shared library "(some library)" > > where (some library) is something like libXmu.so.6.0 (not sure about > what's between the X and the first .) I located the library in the > /usr/X11R6/lib dir and when I did an ldconfig -r it showed: Searched the archives, finally found a message saying: ldconfig -aout -m /usr/X11R6/lib/aout /usr/X11R6/lib If this works, and remains after reboot, great! There's still the memory problem, though... If anyone has any other suggestions, please send them! Thanks! Manu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message