From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Fwl5g-0001zQ-85 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 01 Jul 2006 19:25:16 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k61JNxq8026647; Sat, 1 Jul 2006 19:23:59 GMT Received: from pfepc.post.tele.dk (pfepc.post.tele.dk [195.41.46.237]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k61JJKJW030476 for ; Sat, 1 Jul 2006 19:19:20 GMT Received: from [80.163.23.219] (x1-6-00-0b-6a-92-4c-08.k190.webspeed.dk [80.163.23.219]) by pfepc.post.tele.dk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1015B8A001B for ; Sat, 1 Jul 2006 21:19:19 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <44A6CAB6.5050301@herkild.dk> Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2006 21:19:18 +0200 From: Kristian Poul Herkild User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (X11/20060606) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Xterm can't find libXaw.so.8 after Xorg update References: <20060701183623.GB15024@waltdnes.org> In-Reply-To: <20060701183623.GB15024@waltdnes.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 64633c6e-cb78-4ef2-a99c-44b59519654a X-Archives-Hash: 0e5859cbdb837d5e686412143dc20a78 Walter Dnes wrote: > So X runs, but no xterms, with an error message about not being able > to find libXaw.so.8. First, I checked to see what was available... > > m3000[root][~] ll /usr/lib/libXaw.so.* > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Jul 1 02:33 /usr/lib/libXaw.so.6 -> libXaw6.so.6 > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Jul 1 02:33 /usr/lib/libXaw.so.7 -> libXaw7.so.7 > > Then I kludged together an ugly workaround... > > [m3000][root][~] cd /usr/lib > [m3000][root][/usr/lib] ln -s /usr/lib/libXaw.so.7 libXaw.so.8 > > Much to my surprise, the damn thing actually works. But I know that > somewhere down the line, this will come back to bite me. How do I get > the real libXaw.so.8 built? > Aaawwww... that was an ugly hack. Reminds me of my LFS-days :P When you encounter broken packages, you should run "revdep-rebuild --pretend", watch the output and if necessary run revdep-rebuild without --pretend. That is the right way to solve such problems. -Kristian Poul Herkild -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list