From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jun 25 21:29: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from turtle.looksharp.net (cc360882-a.strhg1.mi.home.com [24.2.221.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45FB537B659 for ; Sun, 25 Jun 2000 21:29:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bsdx@looksharp.net) Received: from localhost (bsdx@localhost) by turtle.looksharp.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA72036; Mon, 26 Jun 2000 00:28:51 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from bsdx@looksharp.net) Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 00:28:51 -0400 (EDT) From: Adam To: John Daniels Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help! can't 'startx' - missing libc.so In-Reply-To: <20000626034232.35714.qmail@hotmail.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Try installing the compat3x distribution portion of freebsd On Sun, 25 Jun 2000, John Daniels wrote: >Hi: > >I apologize for posting this to -current, but I really need to know how bad >the damage is ASAP because I may need to reinstall. > >When I type 'startx' I get a message that libc.so.3 cannot be found and also >a note about /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1 > >I'm not sure how these two files are related. Is libc.so.3 contained in >ld-elf.so, or called from it? > >I'm not sure what happened to this file(s) but I did a 'make' on XFree86 to >see if the file(s) are produced there, but they don't seem to be a part of >XFree86. I believe that libc.so may be a C-library provided by the system, >and I may need to either ftp a new one or install a new system. > >Any help is very welcome. > >John > >________________________________________________________________________ >Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message