On 25 Jan 1998, Nigel Elliott wrote:

> I am having problems getting X windows to run. I have been through the
> X Windows manual pages but still haven't got anywhere.
> 
> The error message I get when I run 'startx' is as follows:
> 
>   /usr/libexec/ld.so : xdm : libXmu.so.6.0 : No such file or directory.
> 
> I checked that libXmu.so.6.0 exists which it does in '/usr/X11R6.3/lib'
> directory.
> 
> Has anyone else had this problem before and if so could you please put
> me out of my misery.

Try adding lines to your /etc/ld.conf and rebooting, ld.conf has a file
format of each line being a path to libs, (note this is from memory) 
typically:

/usr/lib
/usr/X11/lib
/usr/local/lib

or something like that, you can check which libs ld knows about with
ldconfig -r, check man ldconfig and man ld.conf

On another note I think this is at least the third time this sort of
question has come up, perhaps it should go in the FAQ?

Cheers,
Chris