You need to reinstall the XFree86-libs rpm. Many things seem to break
those in RH5.x :(
You'll prolly have to do a --force.
HTH
Chris
On Thu, 18 Jun 1998, Rick Ingersoll wrote:
>I have just completed an upgrade from RedHat 4.2 to RedHat 5.0. I then
>proceeded to apply all of the security related package upgrades. These
>included
>
>Xconfigurator-3.26-1
>XFree86-3.3.2-14
>XFree86-libs-3.3.2-14
>
>The documentation associated with these patches indicated that I should then
>either
>
>upgrade the XFree86 server
>
>or
>
>chmod u-s /usr/X11R6/bin/X*
>
>I chose the latter figuring it was the easiest, but then startx wouldn't
>work and some of the output indicated that it needed to run as root. So I
>reset the setuid bit and decided to upgrade the server.
>
>I went to the XFree86 site and downloaded and applied patch 2 for 3.3.2
>(X3322upd). Now startx fails with the following output:
>
>xinit: error in loading shared libraries
>/usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6: undefined symbol: _Xglobal_lock
>
>Same thing with emacs (i.e., emacs: error in loading shared libraries).
>
>Anybody have any suggestions?
>
>Thanks.
>
>Rick.
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