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

[Chris Turkel]

On Sep 23, 2006, at 4:51 PM, Steve Graegert wrote:

> Brendan,
>
> On 9/23/06, Brendan Leddy <treat.williams at gmail.com> 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.
>
> I've seen similar problems and most of the times the cure has been to
> manually create a link to the library in question (used for versioning
> of libraries):
>
> # cd /usr/X11/lib
> # ln -s /usr/X11/lib/libXxf86misc.so.1 libXxf86misc.so.1.1
>
> I suspect that the link has not been created during package
> installation.  Just give it a try.
>
> 	\Steve


I did that but mine crashes with System exception: IDL:Bonobo/ 
GeneralError:1.0 child process did not give error message, unknown  
failure occurred.