On Tue, 06 Jun 2006 17:26:51 -0400 "Thomas H. George" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In the xorg update there was an advice to save the files in /usr/X11R6 > so the bin directory could be replaced with a softlink to /usr/bin. > Once this had been done the programs that were in usr/X11R6/bin could > be moved to /usr/bin and the other files & directories could be moved > back to /usr/X11R6. > > To comply I did mv /usr/X11R6 /usr/X11R6Saved > > After the update I forgot to move things back and gdm would not start > X Windows. > > I remembered what I had not moved and tried mv /usr/X11R6Saved/lib > /usr/X11R6. This failed as there was a new X11 in /usr/X11R6 and mv > aborted rather than overwrite this. Accordingly I tried mv > /usr/X11R6Saved/lib *. /usr/X11R6/lib. This moved all the files but > the softlinks were lost. > > Now gdm started X Windows for 10 seconds, then exited with a message > > dbus-launch: error while loading shared libraries: > libICE.so.6: cannot open shared object file. > > I restored the softlinks for libICE.so to libICE.so.6 to libICE.so.6.4 > but this has not solved the problem. There are a great many such > softlinks in the lib. > > Is this a clue to what I must do to solve the problem? If so, does > anyone know the answer? > > Tom George > > Some of the X-related packages in etch are still at version 6.9: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-show-versions | grep 6.9.0 libxaw8/etch uptodate 6.9.0.dfsg.1-6 libice6/etch uptodate 6.9.0.dfsg.1-6 xlibs/etch uptodate 6.9.0.dfsg.1-6 libxaw8-dev/etch uptodate 6.9.0.dfsg.1-6 libice-dev/etch uptodate 6.9.0.dfsg.1-6 Hopefully, reinstalling them will restore the necessary files in /usr/X11R6/lib. So, try 'apt-get install --reinstall libxaw8 libice6 xlibs'. -- Liam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
