startx problem after upgrade FC1

[Adam Voigt]

Type "service xfs start" and see if that fixes it.


On Fri, 2004-02-27 at 13:02, Patrice Perez wrote:
> Hello!
> Thanks for helping me!
> I get the first 3 libraries except the numbers in parentheses are different
> /usr/X11R6/lib is listed in /etc/ld.so.conf
> I ran ldconfig -v as root again
> Now when I run startx I get
> fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed'
> Then XIO: fatal IO error 104
> 
> Bevan C. Bennett wrote:
> 
> > Patrice Perez wrote:
> >
> >> Hello,
> >> I have run the upgrade to FC1 from KDE and then got  a problem when 
> >> trying startx
> >> xauth: error while loading shared libraries: libXmuu.so.1: cannot 
> >> open shared object file: No such file or directory
> >>
> >> same from xinit
> >>
> >> However I can find the library in /usr/X11R6/lib
> >>
> >> Could someone tell me how to fix this?
> >> Thanks
> >
> >
> > What does it say if you type in "ldd `which xauth`"?
> > It should look something like this:
> > [bevan at saladin ~]> ldd `which xauth`
> >         libXmuu.so.1 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXmuu.so.1 (0x00101000)
> >         libXext.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6 (0x00625000)
> >         libX11.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x00545000)
> >         libc.so.6 => /lib/tls/libc.so.6 (0x41018000)
> >         libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x41177000)
> >         /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x41000000)
> >
> > If ldd can't find the first three, you probably have a misconfigured 
> > ld.so. Check if /usr/X11R6/lib is listed in /etc/ld.so.conf:
> > [bevan at saladin ~]> more /etc/ld.so.conf
> > /usr/lib/mysql
> > /usr/X11R6/lib
> > /usr/lib/sane
> > /usr/lib/qt-3.1/lib
> >
> > If it isn't, try adding it and running (as root) "ldconfig -v".
> > If it is, try running "ldconfig -v" anyway to update your cache 
> > information.
> >
> > Then check ldd again to see if the libraries are being properly 
> > located yet.
> >
> > If your ldd looks ok, something more complicated and mys-teeeer-ious 
> > is at work.
> >
> >
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Adam Voigt
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