hi george.
ok, safe to say it is a problem with your libXext libs. i am a little
confused about what "I had done a hard drive install lacking X
support" means. did you install a slack base installation without
X support or what? also, where does accelx fit into all of this?
i don't know much about accelx, does it supply it's own x libs
or is it just an optimized x server?
i would revert everything you did with respect to installing
the xlibs and make sure that you're installing them correctly
and that there are no errors in the config logs.
that's all i can think of at the moment...keep me posted.
George Winn wrote:
> Hi everyone. Haven't posted to the list for a while, but I've really run
> into a snafu that's messed me up for a few days now. I've checked the
> archives, dejanews, and windowmaker's home page. I bought accelx, and
> installed it. I decided that I don't like Englightenment, and I wanted to
> run WindowMaker. I got on windowmaker's FTP site, and downloaded all of
> the libraries available. I also downloaded the slackware X libraries and
> installed them since I had done a hard drive install lacking any X
> support. I installed wmaker, and after having to do plenty of finagling to
> get libjpeg installed the correct way, the thing installs without
> complaints. I login, and run wmaker.inst in my home dir, and now whenever
> i "startx" I get "wmaker: libXext.so.6 -- unable to load library" as the
> error message. So, I check my ld.so.conf naturally, and see that it does
> contain /usr/X11R6/lib, which is where the symlink libXext.so.6 points to
> libXext.so.6.4. Furthermore, typing ldconfig -v does output libXext.so.6
> correctly. However, if I do a ldd `which wmaker`, (the which just gets the
> path, it's as if I had done a ldd /full/path/to/wmaker), It tells me that
> libXext.so.6 is not found, and one other library that escapes me, as I am
> in windows NT right now for lack of a pretty pop/smtp/imap/filter e-mail
> client (but hopefully I'll get X working the way I like it soon). If
> anyone can help walk me through how to troubleshoot these linking problems,
> please help me. I think the problem may stem from some sort of
> libc5/libc6/ELF version mismatch type of a thingy.....i'm not very sure
> tho, because I'm a newbie when it comes to things not just
> ./configure;make;make install ing correctly.
> Any help is horribly appreciated. Free 10MB MFM drive to the person who
> successfully helps me through this one :P
> Thanks,
> George Winn
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