(non)missing gnome libraries

[Dejan Lesjak]

On Wednesday 06 of April 2005 20:58, Michael Hopkins wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I just upgraded some x11 and gnome ports and several things have stopped
> working.  I scanned the error output and did as it said in gnomealyzer.sh
> (cvsup & retry, pkgdb -F, portupgrade -a) and got a bunch of problem ports
> flagged up.  Things that were working fine up until yesterday have stopped
> finding various libraries, even though they exist in my machine e.g.
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> mwh at Athlon ~ % bpm &
> [1] 76897
> mwh at Athlon ~ % /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libgtk-x11-2.0.so.400"
> not found, required by "bpm"
>
> [1]+  Exit 1                  bpm
>
> mwh at Athlon ~ % gkrellm &
> [1] 76899
> mwh at Athlon ~ % /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libgtk-x11-2.0.so.400"
> not found, required by "gkrellm"
>
> [1]+  Exit 1                  gkrellm
>
> ..but..
>
> mwh at Athlon ~ % locate libgtk-x11-2.0.so.400
> /usr/X11R6/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.400
>
> ..also..
>
> mwh at Athlon ~ % gedit &
> [1] 76900
> mwh at Athlon ~ % /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libgnomevfs-2.so.600"
> not found, required by "gedit"
>
> [1]+  Exit 1                  gedit
>
> mwh at Athlon ~ % locate libgnomevfs-2.so.600
> /usr/X11R6/lib/libgnomevfs-2.so.600
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>-
>
> Can someone tell me if there is an easy answer to this?  Maybe some
> symbolic links broken somewhere?

Locate consults a pre-made database to find files, so this file may no longer 
exist - see if it is really there with ls or some such.
It seems you have been upgrading GNOME. See GNOME Upgrading FAQ at
http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/faq210.html


Dejan