From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 15 14:42:16 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA08147 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 15 Dec 1998 14:42:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from peloton.physics.montana.edu (peloton.physics.montana.edu [153.90.192.177]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA08138 for ; Tue, 15 Dec 1998 14:42:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu) Received: from localhost (brett@localhost) by peloton.physics.montana.edu (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id PAA22338; Tue, 15 Dec 1998 15:41:45 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu) Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 15:41:44 -0700 (MST) From: Brett Taylor To: Eric Patterson cc: "FreeBSD Questions (E-mail)" Subject: Re: Problems running Netscape 4.5 In-Reply-To: <001a01be2878$aadb06e0$8c01a8c0@marvin.rdbewss.redstone.army.mil> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, > I searched the mail list archives and found that others had had > similar problems. I saw that one guy recommended the following as a > fix: > # ldconfig -aout -m /usr/X11R6/lib/aout > # ldconfig -aout > This helped in that the command ldconfig -aout -r works. Then I ran > # ldconfig -aout -m /usr/X11R6/lib > That completed successfully. Then I ran > Sure enough, /usr/X11R6/lib/aout doesn't exist. Hmm, well, a bunch > has changed, let's try to run netscape again. Having just been through this you need to have working copies of the X aout libraries to run netscape. This was for me pretty easy as I just ftp'ed them over from my STABLE machine and now netscape runs. Hopefully you'll be able to find a copy of the aout libraries from X somewhere (hopefully other than installing the X package from packages-current-aout. Best of luck! Brett ****************************************************************** Brett Taylor brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu http://peloton.physics.montana.edu/brett/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message