Re: xauth cannot find libXmu when starting X
Hi Folks,
No one answered my post, but I figured it out....As I stated below, my /etc
file was overwritten by an earlier version. I took a look at ld.so.conf
and sure enough some of the lib directories were missing. I replaced them, did
another ldconfig -v, and everything is working fine now. Out of curiosity, I
wonder why the system did not work before. ldconfig -p showed the library as
being loaded, why did it not work? Does ld.so.cache get checked by X before
loading?
Well, like I said everything is cool now. Take care everyone.
Jeff
> Hello all,
>
> When I try to fire up X, using startx or xdm, I receive the following error:
>
> xauth: can't load library 'libXmu.so.6'
> xinit: can't load library 'libXmu.so.6'
>
> The lib file does exist,
>
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Jun 2 15:27 /usr/X11R6/lib/libXmu.so.6 -> libXmu.so.6.0
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 67856 Jul 17 1997 /usr/X11R6/lib/libXmu.so.6.0
>
> and it is listed in the ldconfig -p list. I looked in the xauth man page, was
> not able to see anything incredibly useful. I suspect something wrong in /etc,
> but I am not sure (I accidently used 'tar xvfz' instead of 'tar cvfz' to
> "create" a new system backup; ended up overwriting a bunch of files with a
> rather old version. For shame...I have more current backups of /usr, /var,
> /home and /root, but not of /etc.)
>
> When I try to execute xdm or startx, it does not even load XF86Config
> (or at least it sends not of the usual info to the tty).
>
> My .Xauthority file is empty also.
>
> Suggestions?
>
> Thank you,
>
>
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