That mention of having installed "two different versions of libgnustep-base" is the clue I needed!
Problem solved! I am a FreeBSD guy so going to the rpm based systems is not taken kindly :-) On Fri, 8 Feb 2019 at 15:22, Gordon Messmer <users@sogo.nu> wrote: > On 2/6/19 10:36 PM, Odhiambo Washington" (odhia...@gmail.com) wrote: > > The output does not really help me figure it out: > > > > root@waridi:/usr/home/wash # ldd > > /usr/local/GNUstep/Local/Tools/Admin/sogod > > /usr/local/GNUstep/Local/Tools/Admin/sogod: > > libgnustep-base.so.1.26 => > > /usr/local/GNUstep/System/Library/Libraries/libgnustep-base.so.1.26 > > (0x804400000) > ... > > libgnustep-base.so.1.25 => > > /usr/local/lib/compat/pkg/libgnustep-base.so.1.25 (0x805e00000) > > > Quite understandable. Shared library conflicts are difficult to > troubleshoot. I really highly recommend rpm-based systems as they > prevent a lot of those issues. > > In your case, you've managed to install two different versions of > libgnustep-base, which will lead to undefined behavior. Crashes in your > case. You need to figure out how that happened, and reverse whatever > change introduced the copy that you don't want. > > Or start over on a clean system. If you've automated your deployment, > that option should be trivial and preferred. > > > -- > users@sogo.nu > https://inverse.ca/sogo/lists > -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254 7 3200 0004/+254 7 2274 3223 "Oh, the cruft.", grep ^[^#] :-) -- users@sogo.nu https://inverse.ca/sogo/lists