'Respawning too fast'

[Bob Chiodini]

On Fri, 2004-03-19 at 10:13, Barry Skidmore wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-03-19 at 10:07, jludwig wrote:
> > I believe you will have to rerun up2date in init 3 or totally reload
> > clean if that doesn't work.
> 
> I tried doing a 'startx' from runlevel 3, and got the following error:
> xauth:error while loading shared libraries: libXmuu.so.1:cannot open
> shared object file: no such file or directory.
> 
> If I try to fetch that library using up2date, the following error
> occurs:
> up2date:error while loading shared libraries:libxml2.so.2:cannot open
> shared object file: no such file or directory.
> 
> It sounds like I am missing some files and that there is no way of
> retrieving them with up2date.
> 
> Is it time to do a fresh reinstall?
> 
> Barry

Barry,

Not yet.  If you have not already reloaded, check /etc/ld.so.conf and
add a line:

/usr/X11R6/lib

Then run ldconfig.  This fixed it for me.  You'll also need the do the
following:

chkconfig --add xfs
service xfs start

Thanks to Mike A. Harris for an earlier post indicating that there was
an ld.so.conf issue after upgrading to X.org, as well as Karsten Hopp
and Fred New for finding the xfs issues.

Bob...