From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri Apr 17 12:28:54 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA08486 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Fri, 17 Apr 1998 12:28:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from shell.futuresouth.com (shell.futuresouth.com [198.78.58.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA08416 for ; Fri, 17 Apr 1998 19:28:37 GMT (envelope-from fullermd@futuresouth.com) Received: from localhost (fullermd@localhost) by shell.futuresouth.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id OAA28048; Fri, 17 Apr 1998 14:28:27 -0500 (CDT) Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 14:28:27 -0500 (CDT) From: "Matthew D. Fuller" To: Stumpie cc: Bob Ashby , freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Running X In-Reply-To: <3536D992.450F@edu.gte.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 16 Apr 1998, Stumpie wrote: > Bob Ashby wrote: > > > > This is getting annoying. I have loaded FreeBSD 2.2.5 so far everything > > works well from root. I established a usr (me) when I log on as a user I > > can't run "startx" even when I cd /usr/X11R6/bin and ls the directory to > > make sure that the file is there and type "startx" I can not get it to > > start. Is there any help for me? /usr/X11R6/bin probably isn't in your path. Try cd'ing to /usr/X11R6/bin and typing: % ./startx If that fails, you may have a problem with the permissions on startx, or X, or some other files. > I can relate to that. I've been loging in as root. I got into x config and ran > that program. When I entered startx from root, I got the following error message. > > ld.so failed can't find shared library "libxmu.so.6.0" > > Do I have to run startx from /usr/x11r6/bin? Do I have to login as a user other > than root? Try running these two commands: % ldconfig -m /usr/X11R6/lib (this adds /usr/X11R6/lib to the lib path) % ldconfig -R (this scans through the lib path for libraries) The second command is needed because you need to rescan after you add a new directory. > > I told you I was green. ;-) He... You don't even WANT to go into some of the green (and often very black ;) things I did back when I started running FreeBSD. I'm not all that 'un-newbie' nowadays, but don't tell my boss ;). > > Regards, > > Paul > *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* | FreeBSD; the way computers were meant to be | * "The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, is * | that I haven't figured out how to light the middle yet."| * fullermd@futuresouth.com :-} MAtthew Fuller * | http://keystone.westminster.edu/~fullermd | *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message