FC6 - Teaching A New Dog Old Tricks

[Net Llama!]

On Fri, 5 Jan 2007, Leon Goldstein wrote:
> Ric Moore wrote:
>
>> <snip>
>>
>> Would something like ldd on the bin file reveal some useful info? Just a
>> shot in the dark here... looking for my spotlight. Ric
>>
>>
>>
>>
> Running ldd on the xwp executable in ~/wpbin is the first
> troubleshooting step.
>
> It reported libc.so.5 and libm.so.5 residing in /usr/i386-compat-gnulibc1,
> so the startup shell script is doing its job and setting the
> environment, i.e. telling xwp where to find its libc5.
>
> What is happening here, I think, is the same problem that occurs with
> other problematic distro's, namely the Linux dynamic linker (ld.so) is
> not working.

Or the ancient libc5 libraries that you installed aren't compatible with 
the rest of the system.

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