SOLVED: error while loading shared libraries: /usr/X11R6/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0: ELF file OS ABI invalid

[David J Brooks]

On Sunday 18 June 2006 10:15, David J Brooks wrote:
> On Sunday 18 June 2006 09:59, David J Brooks wrote:
> > I recently moved from linux_base-8 to linux_base-fc4 and now I am getting
> > the following error whenever I try to run Acroread7:
> >
> > error while loading shared libraries: /usr/X11R6/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0:
> > ELF file OS ABI invalid
> >
> > ... clearly I need to load the linux version of libgtk, but which port is
> > it in?
>
> Perhaps more to the point, why is acroread trying to
> load  /usr/X11R6/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 instead
> of /usr/compat/linux/usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 ?
>
> FWIW, both versions of libgtk-x11 are installed.

With much assistance from Boris, I found the problem in my .login file:

setenv QTDIR /usr/X11R6
setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH $QTDIR/lib

Commenting out the LD_LIBRARY_PATH line solved the problem, and as it happens, 
QT didn't need it anyway. Why it didn't cause problems under linux_base-8 
remains a mystery to me.

David
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