This is just a guess, but are you running debian 1.2? look in your /etc/ld.so.conf, check if there is a line in it, such as
/usr/X11R6/lib this tells the dynamic linker to look in that directory for shared libs, i.e the xpm library you need. Shaya On Wed, 25 Jun 1997, Johnny Stevenson wrote: > Please can you help: > > I have a problem with the fvwm window manager, it cannot load > libXpm.so.4. > > When I run startx, X starts and displays the grey screen, then drops > back down to the terminal. > > I then tried running fvwm from the terminal and got an error: > > fvwm: couldnt load libXpm.so.4 > > I checked and the xpm4.7 package is installed, reinstalled it anyway, > then reinstalled the fvwm packages and still got the same answer. > > Unless anyone has any suggestions I feel that it must be a problem with > the hard drive somewhere. So if I dont hear anything in the next week I > will reformat and see if that fixes it. > > Thanks in advance for any help or advice. > -- > > John Stevenson 3rd Yr BSc Soft. Eng. > ** Staff/Student Representative ** > E-mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] > URL : http://www.ncl.ac.uk/~n4215605 > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
