"Rick \"Gilligan\" Uschold" writes:Much Thanks, my system is Back!
> I'm still trying to build gnucash unstable. I had upgraded to
> glibc-2.2.1 for a dependency of Guppi, and that required much
> further upgrading / rebuilding other packages (such as XFree86) to
> work with the new glibc. After the downgrade back to
> glibc-2.1.3-16mdk, xwindows does not come up.
>
Nasty.> startx gives the following error:
> xauth: error in loading shared libraries: libXmu.so.6: cannot open
> shared object file: No such file or directory
>
> also, xemacs won't start in the non windowed mode, it gives:
> /usr/bin/xemacs: error in loading shared libraries: libXaw.so.6:
> cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
> Oddly, both of these files exist in /usr/X11R6/lib
>
First suggestion - try running ldconfig.If that doesn't work, ls -l /usr/X11R6/lib/libXmu.so.6 and see whether
the symlink points to anything.------------------------------------------------------------
Robert Merkel [EMAIL PROTECTED]"We are excited and optimistic about its usage going
forward and, yes, we can teach penguins the military
close-order drill", Mark Norton, US Department of Defense.
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/etc/ld.so.conf did not exist, but three old back up versions did. I copied the one with the most directories in it to /ld.so.conf and ran ldconfig, and , wa la, everything works!
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