Cannot open shared object file errors preventing boot up

[Graeme Nichols]

On Wed, 2004-08-11 at 06:11, Rick Stevens wrote:
> Bob McClure Jr wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 04:04:31PM +1000, Graeme Nichols wrote:
> > 
> >>
> >>Rick Stevens wrote:
> >>
> >>>Graeme Nichols wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>Hello Folks, I don't know if I have been hacked or have simply managed 
> >>>>to corrupt something but I cannot start any apps. and cannot really 
> >>>>boot the system.
> >>>>
> >>>>The errors I am receiving all say 'error while loading shared library 
> >>>><some library: cannot open shared object file: no such file or directory"
> >>>>
> >>>>While trying to boot the first error encountered says: "Starting xfs: 
> >>>>xfs: error while loading shared library libXfont.so.1: cannot open 
> >>>>shared object file: no such file or directory."
> >>>>
> >>>>The when the graphical login screen is trying to load I get the error 
> >>>>"Id X respawning too fast. Disaabled for 5 minutes"
> >>>>
> >>>>If I manage to boot into run level 3 then try to run 'startx' I get 
> >>>>about 6 lines of errors similar to the following: " Xauth: error while 
> >>>>loading shared libraries: libXmuu.so.1; cannot open shared etc. etc. 
> >>>>No such file or directory"
> >>>>
> >>>>I was running mrtg at the time and it failed with the same type of error.
> >>>>
> >>>>The only other thing I was doing at the time was installing epiphany 
> >>>>using the package manager, which finished normally but epiphany would 
> >>>>not run. Said it was starting but it bombed out. Trying to start it 
> >>>
> >>>>from a terminal resulted in a similar error to all the above.
> >>>
> >>>>Help Please... I'm sending this from Win 98, not good.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>Some of your X environment got stomped on.  Boot up in run level 3 or
> >>>single user mode, dig up your CDs and run
> >>>
> >>>   rpm -Uvh --force XFree86-devel*.rpm
> >>>
> >>>Hopefully that should fix it unless other bits got munched, too.
> >>
> >>Hi Rick, thanks. re-installed all the xorg-X11* rpms on the 4 FC2 CDs. 
> >>This had an impact in that 'startx' tries to do things now but 
> >>eventually bombs out on the 'unix/7100' (or something) font path and 
> >>then 'cannot load 'fixed' fonts' I've googled around but cannot find any 
> >>answers yet.
> >>
> >>Have you any further ideas on what may be happening now and how I can 
> >>work out just where this font path refers to?
> >>
> >>-- 
> >>
> >>Kind regards,
> >>Graeme Nichols.
> > 
> > 
> > It'll be another nine hours before Rick comes on-line, so I'll take a
> > shot at this.  (Don't ask why I'm up this late.)
> > 
> > Your symptoms indicate your X font server is not running.  As root,
> > run
> > 
> >   service xfs status
> > 
> > You should get something like
> > 
> > xfs (pid 1032) is running...
> > 
> > If not, run
> > 
> >   service xfs start
> > 
> > That gets it starting right now.  If that comes up ok, run
> > 
> >   chkconfig --list xfs
> > 
> > You should get something like
> > 
> > xfs             0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
> > 
> > If not, run
> > 
> >   chkconfig xfs on
> > 
> > That makes it come on next time you boot.  If it won't come up and
> > stay up, look in /var/log/messages for clues.
> 
> That's exactly right.  xfs must be running.  Many people turn it off
> thinking it's a security risk, but it's not as it only runs on Unix
> sockets.

Hello Rick, please see my reply to Bob. X started up OK today but there
is still the original problem similar to this one: 'error while loading
shared libraries: libqt-mt.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such
file or directory'. Any clues? Doesn't appear to be a permission
problem, but what the problem is I have no idea. Sound familiar :-)

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