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subatomic

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From: Berlin

Registered: 2005-06-26

Posts: 180

libxfsm not found, unable to launch xfce4-session

I had some time this weekend to try out Xfce4 on my pokey notebook. It won't start. It says libxfsm 4.2 isn't not found.
It's in there (/opt/xfce4/lib) as a link but I'm not sure to what. Can anyone get me going?

rata

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Registered: 2006-04-10

Posts: 46

Re: libxfsm not found, unable to launch xfce4-session

I have the same problem. Is there someone that has fix this?

Last edited by rata (2007-04-14 06:13:23)

Snowman

Developer/Forum Fellow

From: Montreal, Canada

Registered: 2004-08-20

Posts: 5,212

Re: libxfsm not found, unable to launch xfce4-session

xfce4 was recently moved from /opt/xfce4 to /usr. Make sure your system is fully up-to-date.

rata

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Registered: 2006-04-10

Posts: 46

Re: libxfsm not found, unable to launch xfce4-session

I do "pacman -Syu" but no upgrades are found.
I use xfce4-svn. Is that the problem?. Maybe those packages are out-of-date.

slackhack

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Registered: 2004-06-30

Posts: 738

Re: libxfsm not found, unable to launch xfce4-session

that's probably your problem. get rid of svn and install 4.4 from extra.

rata

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Registered: 2006-04-10

Posts: 46

Re: libxfsm not found, unable to launch xfce4-session

My problem continues and it isn't only with xfce4-svn, but also with for example gthumb, evince, skype, etc.

$ gthumb
gthumb: error while loading shared libraries: libgthumb.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
$ skype
skype: error while loading shared libraries: libqt-mt.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
$ evince
evince: error while loading shared libraries: libgnomeui-2.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I have no idea of what could be causing these problems and why those programs have problems while other programs like firefox, fluxbox and gaim don't.

Somebody knows what could be going wrong?

rata

Last edited by rata (2007-04-17 15:12:02)

Snowman

Developer/Forum Fellow

From: Montreal, Canada

Registered: 2004-08-20

Posts: 5,212

Re: libxfsm not found, unable to launch xfce4-session

Do you have these file on your system?
/opt/qt/lib/libqt-mt.so.3
/opt/gnome/lib/libgnomeui-2.so.0
/opt/gnome/lib/libgthumb.so

If yes, try running:
$ source /etc/profile
in a terminal then retry starting them in the same terminal. If they work with that, logout and relogin to make the change system wide.

rata

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Registered: 2006-04-10

Posts: 46

Re: libxfsm not found, unable to launch xfce4-session

$ ls -l /opt/qt/lib/libqt-mt.so.3
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 2007-04-13 04:54 /opt/qt/lib/libqt-mt.so.3 -> libqt-mt.so.3.3.8
$ ls -l /opt/gnome/lib/libgnomeui-2.so.0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 2007-04-02 08:02 /opt/gnome/lib/libgnomeui-2.so.0 -> libgnomeui-2.so.0.1800.1
$ ls -l /opt/gnome/lib/libgthumb.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 603225 2007-03-31 19:42 /opt/gnome/lib/libgthumb.so
$ source /etc/profile
$ skype
skype: error while loading shared libraries: libqt-mt.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
$ gthumb
gthumb: error while loading shared libraries: libgthumb.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
$ evince
evince: error while loading shared libraries: libgnomeui-2.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
$ cat /etc/profile
#
# /etc/profile
#

export PATH="/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/opt/bin"

export MANPATH="/usr/man:/usr/X11R6/man"
export LESSCHARSET="latin1"
export INPUTRC="/etc/inputrc"
export LESS="-R"

# Locale settings (find your locale with 'locale -a')
export LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
export LC_COLLATE="C"

export COLUMNS LINES

test -n "$DISPLAY" && export TERM="xterm-xfree86"

if [[ ${EUID} == 0 ]] ; then
        PS1='[\A]\[\033[01;31m\]\u \[\033[01;34m\]\W \$ \[\033[00m\]'
else
        PS1='[\A]\[\033[01;32m\]\u \[\033[01;34m\]\W \$ \[\033[00m\]'
fi

#export PS1='[\u@\h \W]\$ '
export PS2='> '

umask 002

if [ "$TERM" = "xterm" -o "$TERM" = "xterm-color" -o "$TERM" = "rxvt" -o "$TERM" = "xterm-xfree86" ]; then
  PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "\033]0;${USER}@${HOSTNAME%%.*}:${PWD/$HOME/~}\007"'
fi

# load profiles from /etc/profile.d
#  (to disable a profile, just remove execute permission on it)
if [ `ls -A1 /etc/profile.d/ | wc -l` -gt 0 ]; then
  for profile in /etc/profile.d/*.sh; do
    if [ -x $profile ]; then
      . $profile
    fi

  done
  unset profile
fi

# End of file

psyBSD

Member

From: The Netherlands

Registered: 2007-03-01

Posts: 25

Re: libxfsm not found, unable to launch xfce4-session

tried ldconfig?!

rata

Member

Registered: 2006-04-10

Posts: 46

Re: libxfsm not found, unable to launch xfce4-session

I had to add the next lines to /etc/ld.so.conf to solve the problem:

/opt/xfce4/lib/
/opt/gnome/lib/
/opt/qt/lib/

Thanks psyBSD and Snowman for your help.

PS: someone knows why this has suddenly changed?