Starting Gnome problem

Joe Marcus Clarke marcus at marcuscom.com
Mon May 3 09:07:50 PDT 2004


On Mon, 2004-05-03 at 11:35, Stephen Liu wrote:
> Hi Joe,
> 
> - snip -
> > > It is very strange.  The file is already there,
> > plus
> > > one symbolic link
> > > 
> > > # locate libORBit-2.so.0
> > > /usr/local/lib/libORBit-2.so.0
> > > 
> > > # ls -al /usr/local/lib/ | grep -i libORBit-2.so.0
> > > lrwxr-xr-x   1 root  wheel       15 May  3 10:23
> > > libORBit-2.so -> libORBit-2.so.0
> > > -rwxr-xr-x   1 root  wheel   402279 May  3 10:23
> > > libORBit-2.so.0
> > > 
> > > Shall I remove the symbolic link
> > 
> > What does:
> > 
> > ldconfig -r | head
> > ldconfig -r | grep ORBit
> > 
> > report?
> 
> # ldconfig -r | head
> /var/run/ld-elf.so.hints:
>         search directories:
> /lib:/usr/lib:/usr/lib/compat:/usr/X11R6/lib:/usr/local/lib:/usr/local/lib/kde3
>         0:-lcrypt.2 => /lib/libcrypt.so.2
>         1:-lkvm.2 => /lib/libkvm.so.2
>         2:-lm.2 => /lib/libm.so.2
>         3:-lmd.2 => /lib/libmd.so.2
>         4:-lncurses.5 => /lib/libncurses.so.5
>         5:-lsbuf.2 => /lib/libsbuf.so.2
>         6:-lutil.4 => /lib/libutil.so.4
>         7:-lalias.4 => /lib/libalias.so.4
> 
> # ldconfig -r | grep ORBit
>         206:-lORBit-imodule-2.0 =>
> /usr/local/lib/libORBit-imodule-2.so.0
>         269:-lORBit-2.0 =>
> /usr/local/lib/libORBit-2.so.0
>         270:-lORBitCosNaming-2.0 =>
> /usr/local/lib/libORBitCosNaming-2.so.0
>         271:-lORBit.2 => /usr/local/lib/libORBit.so.2
>         354:-lORBitutil.2 =>
> /usr/local/lib/libORBitutil.so.2
>         392:-lORBitCosNaming.2 =>
> /usr/local/lib/libORBitCosNaming.so.2

The library exists, and the permissions are good.  ldconfig has it in
its cache.  Perhaps you have a problem with your runtime loader or
permissions on your cache files.  What happens when you run the above
commands as a non-root user?  What are the permissions on /var/run/ld*?

Joe

> 
> B.R.
> Stephen
> 
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