William Murphy L (BH/LMI) wrote:
Can I move ld.so.1 to another directory
Not unless you want to make your machine completely unusable.
Ethereal probably picks it up from /usr/lib/ld.so.1, as that's probably
what's wired into the binary by the linker.
ld.so.1 is the "run-time linker"; it's the first piece of code run by
dynamically-linked programs. (Moving it means that dynamically-linked
programs that use the version you moved won't run, which is likely to
mean that a lot of programs on your system won't run - and those might
be programs that *HAVE* to run in order for your system to be able to
start up.) When the program starts, it attempts to find all the shared
libraries used by a program and map them into the address space of the
process running the program.
The error message in question is coming *from* the run-time linker; the
problem isn't that the system can't find the run-time linker, the
problem is that the run-time linker can't find the libXext.so.0
dynamically-linked library.
Do you have a libXext.so.0 file somewhere on your system? If not, have
you installed X11 on your system? If not, you need to install it.
(Yes, even if the machine on which you're trying to run Ethereal has no
display. In that case, you don't need to install an X server, but you
*do* need the X client libraries, including the libXext library.)
