xorg error

Solaris BD

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Jan 6, 2009, 4:53:09 AM1/6/09

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My Solaris GUI would not start. It gives the following error:

ld.so.1: Xorg: fatal: libXfont.so.1: open failed: No such file or
directory
ld.so.1: Xorg: fatal: relocation error: file /usr/X11/bin/Xorg: symbol
FontFileBitmapSources: referenced symbol not found

Tue Jan 6 15:26:33 2009
error (pid 572): Server unexpectedly died

From terminal I got:

bash$ find /usr | grep libXfont.so.1
/usr/X11/lib/X11/xserver/libXfont.so.1

I think I should make a symbolic link to file into the directory where
xorg searches the file and doesn't find. Tell me where to make this
link..

And how to resolve the second error?

Richard B. Gilbert

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Jan 6, 2009, 8:41:03 AM1/6/09

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http://catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

And then you might start by telling us which version of Solaris you are
using and which hardware platform, X86 or SPARC, you are running it on!

Solaris BD

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Jan 6, 2009, 10:48:00 AM1/6/09

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On Jan 6, 7:41 pm, "Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilber...@comcast.net>
wrote:

> Solaris BD wrote:
>
> http://catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
>
> And then you might start by telling us which version of Solaris you are
> using and which hardware platform, X86 or SPARC, you are running it on!

I am using Solaris 10 update 6 on an intel x86.

Tim Bradshaw

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Jan 6, 2009, 10:52:28 AM1/6/09

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On Jan 6, 9:53 am, Solaris BD <Uni...@gmail.com> wrote:
> My Solaris GUI would not start. It gives the following error:
>
> ld.so.1: Xorg: fatal: libXfont.so.1: open failed: No such file or
> directory
> ld.so.1: Xorg: fatal: relocation error: file /usr/X11/bin/Xorg: symbol
> FontFileBitmapSources: referenced symbol not found
>

$ ldd -s /usr/X11/bin/Xorg

find object=libXfont.so.1; required by /usr/X11/bin/Xorg
search path=/usr/sfw/lib:/usr/X11/lib/X11/xserver:/usr/openwin/
lib (RPATH f
rom file /usr/X11/bin/Xorg)
trying path=/usr/sfw/lib/libXfont.so.1
trying path=/usr/X11/lib/X11/xserver/libXfont.so.1
libXfont.so.1 => /usr/X11/lib/X11/xserver/libXfont.so.
1

[and many more lines]

So that looks like the correct location.

Solaris BD

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Jan 6, 2009, 1:51:04 PM1/6/09

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On Jan 6, 9:52 pm, Tim Bradshaw <tfb+goo...@tfeb.org> wrote:
> $ ldd -s /usr/X11/bin/Xorg
>
> find object=libXfont.so.1; required by /usr/X11/bin/Xorg
> search path=/usr/sfw/lib:/usr/X11/lib/X11/xserver:/usr/openwin/
> lib (RPATH f
> rom file /usr/X11/bin/Xorg)
> trying path=/usr/sfw/lib/libXfont.so.1
> trying path=/usr/X11/lib/X11/xserver/libXfont.so.1
> libXfont.so.1 => /usr/X11/lib/X11/xserver/libXfont.so.

It says libXfont.so.1.

Please tell me which package provide this object. I have xorg-
clientlibs, xwpft etc already installed in the system.

Chris Mattern

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Jan 6, 2009, 1:55:54 PM1/6/09

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The Solaris package system will tell you what package. All
you have to do is ask it:

pkgchk -l -p /pathname/

--
Christopher Mattern

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Solaris BD

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Jan 6, 2009, 2:16:26 PM1/6/09

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On Jan 7, 12:55 am, Chris Mattern <sys...@sumire.gwu.edu> wrote:
> pkgchk -l -p /pathname/

I applied this command.

bash# pkgchk -l -p /usr/X11/lib/X11/xserver/libXfont.so.1
Pathname: /usr/X11/lib/X11/xserver/libXfont.so.1
Type: symbolic link
Source of link: libXfont.so.1.4.1
Referenced by the following packages:
SUNWxorg-server
Current status: installed

It seems /usr/X11/lib/X11/xserver/libXfont.so.1 is linked to
libXfont.so.1.4.1
Is it okay or matches with you?

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Solaris BD

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Jan 6, 2009, 3:52:51 PM1/6/09

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Thanks everyone very much especially to Tim Bradshaw and Chris
Mattern.

After re-installing package SUNWxorg-server, both problems are solved.
I have got my GUI back. I shall never mix packages of different
distributions again!

Thanks again.