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Date:      Sun, 07 Feb 1999 05:55:56 -0700
From:      Emmanuel Gravel <chemtechweb@psn.net>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ld.so can't find libraries
Message-ID:  <36BD8D5C.108C9141@psn.net>
References:  <36BD8B03.4588C8FA@psn.net>

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Emmanuel Gravel wrote:
> 
> I've checked the ld.so and ldconfig man pages to see if there was
> anything I could do.  I have just redone the locate database with
> /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb so I know the locate database is current.
> When I try running startx, I get immediately an error message saying:
> 
> ld.so failed: Can't find shared library "(some library)"
> 
> where (some library) is something like libXmu.so.6.0 (not sure about
> what's between the X and the first .)  I located the library in the
> /usr/X11R6/lib dir and when I did an ldconfig -r it showed:

Searched the archives, finally found a message saying:

ldconfig -aout -m /usr/X11R6/lib/aout /usr/X11R6/lib

If this works, and remains after reboot, great!  There's still the
memory problem, though...

If anyone has any other suggestions, please send them!

Thanks!

Manu

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