Ethereal-users: RE: [Ethereal-users] error when running ethereal 0.10.10

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From: "William Murphy L (BH/LMI)" <william.l.murphy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 19:05:48 +0200
And that seems to be the problem guys. Thanks for the quick responses.

I am clearly missing important libraries in /usr/openwin/lib/.

>From memory what Solrais Package name installs these important libraries and links?

Thanks,
William

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Cc: Michael Grier (DL/LMI)
Subject: Re: [Ethereal-users] error when running ethereal 0.10.10


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.)

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