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Date:      Thu, 27 Mar 1997 13:51:00 -0800 (PST)
From:      "K. Marsh" <durang@u.washington.edu>
To:        Carey Nairn <Carey.Nairn@ccd.tas.gov.au>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: 2.2.1-RELEASE and xdm
Message-ID:  <Pine.A41.3.95b.970327134656.22868A-100000@goodall.u.washington.edu>
In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19970327153157.006ef314@falcon.pacit.tas.gov.au>

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On Thu, 27 Mar 1997, Carey Nairn wrote:

> I just went through the upgrade to 2.2.1R with one of my machines and now
> have a problem running xdm.  The error I get is:
> 
> ld.so failed: Can't find sharted library "libXmu.so.6.0"
> 
> This library is certainly there with global read permissions and also
> appears when I run ldconfig -r.


Had a very similar problem. The key is to figure out (or guess) which
directory xdm is looking in for the file, and put a symbolic link there,
linking to its actual location.

my libXmu.so.6.0 is in /usr/local/X11R6/lib/libXmu.so.6.0, where
/usr/X11R6 -> /usr/local/X11R6.

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