Problem with startx

[Garrett Cooper]

Siraj Shaikh wrote:
> I installed freebsd (6.2) from scratch. Download, updated the ports
> tree. Upgraded all the ports. Installed Xorg (it was xorg-7.3). When I
> typed in
>
> startx
>
> it worked fine. Then I proceeded to install gnome2-lite using
>
> pkg_add -r gnome2-lite
>
> That worked fine. Tried to start startx/gnome2 (after following the
> instructions here:
> http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/faq2.html#full-gnome). I want gnome2
> to start when I type in startx. I have done this in the past, never
> had trouble. But when I rebooted and typed in startx, I had a problem
> about
>
> Shared object "libintl.so.6" not found, required by "gnome-session"
>
> and then went to UPDATING and performed
>
> portupgrade -r gettext
>
> Now, I try startx, it doesnt work at all. It gives me the same error
>
> Shared object "libintl.so.6" not found, required by "gnome-session"
>
> followed by
>
> waiting for X server to shutdown FreeFontPath: FPE
> "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/misc/" refcount is 2, should be 1; fixing
>
> Please help! All I want to do is to be able to run gnome2.
>
> Thanks
>
> Siraj

Looks like you need to reinstall gettext. See: 
<http://wellrounded.wordpress.com/2007/04/01/freebsd-shared-object-libintlso6-not-found/>.
-Garrett