libcrypto.so.7 not found, needed (?) for X server

Dimitry Andric dim at FreeBSD.org
Tue Jan 19 13:15:13 UTC 2016


On 19 Jan 2016, at 13:44, Thomas Mueller <mueller6724 at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> 
> I just updated FreeBSD-current to r294248, and can no longer startx.
> 
> Error message is
> 
> xauth:  file /home/arlene/.serverauth.1177 does not exist
> 
> Shared object "libcrypto.so.7" not found, required by "X"
> xinit: giving up
> xinit: unable to connect to X server: Connection refused
> xinit: server error
> 
> There is /usr/lib/libcrypto.so but notlibcrypto.so.7.
> 
> I also looked in /usr/local/lib, no libcrypto... files.
> 
> Now I run
> 
> pkg info -f xserver and get
> 
> root at amelia:~ # pkg info -f xserver
> Shared object "libssl.so.7" not found, required by "pkg"
> 
> What happened here?  Bug in new FreeBSD?

This is explained by the UPDATING entry of October 2015:

20151030:
        The OpenSSL has been upgraded to 1.0.2d.  Any binaries requiring
        libcrypto.so.7 or libssl.so.7 must be recompiled.

-Dimitry

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