Re: shared libraries?
Rob Hoyle (robho@ebicom.net)
Sun, 12 Jul 1998 20:18:46 -0500 (CDT)
> >
> > > Hey all...I just installed AcceleratedX and it works fine except
> > > when I put in an .xinitrc in my home directory with 'afterstep' in it...I
> > > get this error message upon trying to start the X server:
> > >
> > > PCI (#1/0, 80000013)
> > > MATROX,21: 1064SG (4096k @e0000000)
> > > afterstep: error in loading shared libraries
> > > /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6: undefined symbol: _Xglobal_lock
> > >
> > > is there a way to make it point to a different library or something to fix
> > > this? any help would be appreciated
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Rick
> >
> > try to guess what this mailing list is for ... do u think your problem
> > is AS related? i don't. don't take it as i'm being rude, it's just u who
> > don't know the mailing list rules.
> >
>
> I disagree on the relevance issue, I think it may very well be relevant.
> Ie, there may be a symbol in XFree86's Xext library which Afterstep uses,
> but is absent from AcceleratedX's libraries.
>
> Rick - try reinstalling the XFree86-libs package from your Linux
> distribution (that SHOULD peacefully coexist with AccelX), and see if that
> fixes the problem. Let us know.
>
Actually, the simplest way to correct this is to remove a lib, and
recreate some sym links, which I explained to Rick-- and Will put on here
also, in case the issue is relavant to someone else.
You need to remove libXext.so.6.3
Change anything that is linked to it to point to:
libXext.so.6
It works :>
Rob
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