In message <593d18048%aireland@aireland.mail.indigo.ie>
          Adrian Ireland <aireland@mail.indigo.ie> wrote:

> In message <Pine.NEB.3.96.980905105233.3904A-100000@black-star.demon.co.uk>
>           Mike Pumford <mpumford@black-star.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> (4) Create the /etc/ld.so.conf file
> ls -l /etc
> ...[snippity snip] ...
> -rw-r--r--  1 ireland  wheel        30 Sep  5 04:22 ld.so.conf
> ...[snippity snip] ...
> to read
> /usr/X11R6/lib
> /usr/local/lib
> I also tried that as /usr/X11R6.3/lib
> 
> (5) Tried to startx with
> startx
> 
> Unfortunately I just get
> /usr/libexec/ld.so: xinit: libXmu.so.6.0: No such file or directory

Hi,

I suggested you read the manpages, which explain these issues. 
IIRC you have to call ldconfig with the file as paramter after modifying the 
file (from memory). This happens during boot, in my slightly old system 
in /etc/rc, message "creating runtime link-editor directory cache".
Did you reboot ?

> I know these files are there
> /usr/libexec/ld.so is there
> ls -l /usr/libexec/ld.so
> -rwxrwxrwx  1 bin  bin  65536 May 21 16:18 /usr/libexec/ld.so
> 
> xinit is there

Your problem has nothing to do with X in particular anyway.


> Probably I have alot of editing to do in /etc

Unlikely.

> This is a new set up straight from teh NetBSD site and the documentation
> refers to other files in /etc
> The only one I have changed is the rc.conf file.

Again: Read the manpages. You can use ldconfig <some option> to check 
which shared libraries are visible to the system, which means you 
can quickly find out wether you attempts have been successfull.

Kind regards,

-- 
Thomas Boroske