Subject: Re: X troubles
To: Adrian Rollett <acrollet+@andrew.cmu.edu>
From: Colin Wood <cwood@ichips.intel.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 09/20/1997 16:18:24
Adrian Rollett wrote:
> Having run out of space on my 150 meg Root & Usr partition, I decided to
> move X to my 400 meg partition which I have mounted on /usr/local .
> However, now that I have done this, X will not work because
> a) It cannot find the shared libs at startup, even though I changed the
> path to reflect them - (ldconfig: error cannot find /usr/local/X11R6/lib
> or some cuh, even though it is a valid path)
Where did you change the path? You need to change either /etc/ld.conf or
the line in /etc/rc.local (depending on the age of you /etc files).
> b) The default paths within X are set to /usr/X11R6/foo - So It cannot
> find the fonts, etc etc.
A quickie solution would be to make a symbolic link:
/usr/X11R6 -> /usr/local/X11R6
I hope this helps.
Later.
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Colin Wood cwood@ichips.intel.com
Component Design Engineer - MD6 Intel Corporation
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