[csw-users] gnome-settings-daemon: fatal: libXxf86misc.so.1.1

[Chris Turkel]

On Sep 23, 2006, at 4:31 PM, Brendan Leddy wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I've been trying to get CSW Gnome to work on my Solaris 10 06/06  
> box for about a week.  I've looked through the mailing list  
> archive, Googled, tried creating new users, deleting the stuff in / 
> var/tmp, uninstalling/reinstalling... to no avail.
>
> Gnome does start, but I get the gnome-settings-daemon exception.   
> Trying to start /opt/csw/libexec/gnome-settings-daemon gives me this:
>
> ld.so.1: gnome-settings-daemon: fatal: libXxf86misc.so.1.1: open  
> failed: No such file or directory
> Killed
>
> Have I inadvertently uninstalled an essential package? I can find / 
> usr/X11/lib/libXxf86misc.so.1 just fine, but not .so.1.1.  I  
> couldn't find which package this file is located in.
>
> Also, I have no programs listed in the applications menu.  Is this  
> normal?
>
> The clockapplet fails to start as well.  Not sure if this is  
> related or not.


I have posted this problem here before but no one ever responded.

Googling the problem tells me there are about hundred different ideas  
on how to solve it and I tried a few but none worked.