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Date:      Mon, 26 Jun 2000 00:28:51 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Adam <bsdx@looksharp.net>
To:        John Daniels <jmd526@hotmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Help! can't 'startx' - missing libc.so
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0006260028370.41318-100000@turtle.looksharp.net>
In-Reply-To: <20000626034232.35714.qmail@hotmail.com>

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Try installing the compat3x distribution portion of freebsd

On Sun, 25 Jun 2000, John Daniels wrote:

>Hi:
>
>I apologize for posting this to -current, but I really need to know how bad 
>the damage is ASAP because I may need to reinstall.
>
>When I type 'startx' I get a message that libc.so.3 cannot be found and also 
>a note about /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1
>
>I'm not sure how these two files are related.  Is libc.so.3 contained in 
>ld-elf.so, or called from it?
>
>I'm not sure what happened to this file(s) but I did a 'make' on XFree86 to 
>see if the file(s) are produced there, but they don't seem to be a part of 
>XFree86.  I believe that libc.so may be a C-library provided by the system, 
>and I may need to either ftp a new one or install a new system.
>
>Any help is very welcome.
>
>John
>
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