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Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2007 10:11:33 -0600
From: Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@math.missouri.edu>
To: Lothar Braun <freebsd-stable@lobraun.de>
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Subject: Re: Trouble running Mathematica
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On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 04:38:56PM +0100, Lothar Braun wrote:
> Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:
> > When I run Mathematica 5.2 on FreeBSD RELENG_7 I get the following message:
> > 
> > /usr/local/mma52/SystemFiles/Kernel/Binaries/Linux/MathKernel: error
> > while loading shared libraries: /usr/lib/librt.so.1: ELF file OS ABI
> > invalid
> 
> I got a similar message, when i tried to run skype_devel. The solution
> was to run
> 
> sysctl compat.linux.osrelease=2.4.20
> 
> and put "compat.linux.osrelease=2.4.20" into my /etc/sysctl.conf. This
> may help you, too.
> 
> Regards,
>   Lothar

Works brilliantly !!!!