Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1999 13:20:29 -0500 From: Jonathon McKitrick <j_mckitrick@bigfoot.com> To: Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org>, questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: missing X library? Message-ID: <3842C3ED.275AEECC@bigfoot.com> References: <199911291744.MAA24154@blackhelicopters.org>
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Well, you were right... i reinstalled X and all seems to be OK. We'll see. I guess i really need to pay more attention and find out what is going on in my linux compat directory. I didn't think i would need any linux X support if i already had it in FreeBSD. That seems redundant. Michael Lucas wrote: > > Well, in my efforts to remove wordperfect i shot myself in the foot. I > > ran a 'rpm -e --nodeps < filelist' to remove all rpms, which i thought > > were only for wordperfect. But now xterm and x won't run because of the > > following error from ld-elf.so.1: > > > > shared object "libXmu.s0.6" not found > > > > Where do i reinstall this from? > > And next time i do this, what is the command that will help me find files > > like this on my own? > > > > -jm > > Hello, > > Without more information it's hard to state what exactly happened. > Also, I'm coming in late to this thread. Given all that, here's my > Best Guess (tm)... > > When you installed WordPerfect, did you use RPM's --root /compat/linux > option? > > It's possible that the RPM remove process fried everything that it > required to run including, in your case, the X window system. > > I.e., my system has: > > moneysink~;locate -i libXmu.so.6.0 > /usr/X11R6/lib/aout/libXmu.so.6.0 > /usr/compat/linux/usr/X11R6/lib/libXmu.so.6.0 > /usr/compat/linux/usr/i486-linux-libc5/lib/libXmu.so.6.0 > moneysink~; > > If you fry the one under /usr/X11R6, you're toast. > > If you fry the one under /usr/compat/linux, you're fine. > > My guess is that you deleted your native FreeBSD libXmu.so.6.0. > > Best suggestion; remove and reinstall X. > > Sorry, > ==ml To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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