On Wednesday 08 October 2003 19:17, Chris Cheney wrote: > On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 11:06:23AM +0200, Michael Schuerig wrote: > > On startup I get an error message, "Could not start kdeinit...", > > and the first few lines of ~/.xsession-errors look like this > > > > startkde: Starting up... > > kdeinit: relocation error: /usr/lib/libXcursor.so.1: undefined > > symbol: XRenderFindStandardFormat > > startkde: Could not start kdeinit. Check your installation. > > Warning: connect() failed: : No such file or directory > > _KDE_IceTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.ICE-unix should be set to root > > ... > > > > KDE does start up nevertheless. This happens, apparently, after > > yesterday's update to libxrender1. I'm using the prelink package to > > prelink all executables and shared libs. To make sure the error > > isn't caused by some inconsistent state I freshly prelinked > > everything, but the error persisted afterwards. Going back to > > libxrender1 0.8.2-1 helped, though. Otherwise I'm running the > > latest sid. > > These type of errors wrt relocation errors seem to be fairly common > with KDE. However, I have never seen them on my own box. Perhaps you > need to disable prelink completely for the error to go away? Even > with the new libxrender1 I can still run KDE fine and get no error > messages related to relocations in .xsession-errors
Prelinking isn't the cause of the problem, apparently. I've undone it, still I get an error with libxrender 0.8.3-1 but not with 0.8.2-1. Michael -- Michael Schuerig I was blessed with a birth and a death and mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I guess I just want some say in between. http://www.schuerig.de/michael/ --Ani DiFranco, "Talk To Me Now"