Re: libXpm.so.4.11

["Tony Crawford" <tc@crawfords.de>]

Jose Alberto Lobo wrote (on 22 Mar 00, at 15:04):

>     I straightaway copied  libXpm.so.4.11  to my  /usr/X11R6/lib directory, and
> ran ldconfig. My citrix program now runs normally but, alas!, after I logout
> xdm does not let me back in anymore. I can only log in as root, or else, use
> the character console...

I had the same symptom after Corel WP 8 and then some old libs that 
it required. After a long search, the problem turned out to be the 
permissions of /dev/null: the read bits had been disabled and needed 
to be turned back on. 

T.

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