Finally had a chance to try this, Chris, and not only does it appear to
have worked but I got away without the --force. Thanks.
Rick.
At 04:11 PM 6/18/98 -0400, you wrote:
>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.
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