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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: 2.2-GAMMA ld.so bug?
Date: 3 Mar 1997 21:00:16 GMT
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Nils Ulltveit-Moe <etonumo@eto.ericsson.se> wrote:

> If I do not set LD_LIBRARY_PATH as root, I get error from ld.so:
> libXmu.so.6.0 not found.

For which program?  I've never seen this.

> The problem is that ldconfig has this library
> hashed:
> 
> ldconfig -r | grep libXmu
>         18:-lXmu.6.0 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXmu.so.6.0

As it ought to be.

> I also tried setting the env. variable LD_TRACE_LOADED_OBJECTS, and
> observed that ld.so did not manage to load the libraries.

Hehe. :-)  This is an internal variable of ld.so that's used to implement
the ldd functionality.

If all else fails, try ktracing the failed execution, and search in
the kdump output for the string "Xmu", and for the reason why it's not
found.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)