Wireshark · Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] error when running ethereal 0.10.10

[Fabrizio Bertocci <fabrizio@xxxxxxx>]

Check if the library /usr/lib/libXext.so.0 is present.
If not, there's a high risk that your Solaris installation is corrupted 
or not correct.
I've checked on two machines (running Solaris 8 and Solaris 10) and on 
both cases:

$ ls -l /usr/lib/libXext*
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root          14 May  2 12:07 libXext.so -> 
./libXext.so.0
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root          27 May  2 12:07 libXext.so.0 -> 
../openwin/lib/libXext.so.0

So it appear that libXext is only a symbolic link to the library located 
under /usr/openwin/lib.
Check that those libraries are present...
To make sure all your dependencies are correct, ldd should return this 
kind of output:
# ldd /usr/local/bin/ethereal
       libwiretap.so.0 =>       /usr/local/lib/libwiretap.so.0
       libethereal.so.0 =>      /usr/local/lib/libethereal.so.0
       libpcre.so.0 =>  /usr/local/lib/libpcre.so.0
       libgtk-1.2.so.0 =>       /usr/local/lib/libgtk-1.2.so.0
       libgdk-1.2.so.0 =>       /usr/local/lib/libgdk-1.2.so.0
       libgmodule-1.2.so.0 =>   /usr/local/lib/libgmodule-1.2.so.0
       libglib-1.2.so.0 =>      /usr/local/lib/libglib-1.2.so.0
       libdl.so.1 =>    /usr/lib/libdl.so.1
       libXext.so.0 =>  /usr/lib/libXext.so.0
       libX11.so.4 =>   /usr/lib/libX11.so.4
       libsocket.so.1 =>        /usr/lib/libsocket.so.1
       libm.so.1 =>     /usr/lib/libm.so.1
       libnsl.so.1 =>   /usr/lib/libnsl.so.1
       libz.so =>       /usr/lib/libz.so
       libc.so.1 =>     /usr/lib/libc.so.1
       libmp.so.2 =>    /usr/lib/libmp.so.2
       /usr/platform/SUNW,Ultra-1/lib/libc_psr.so.1


Fabrizio




William Murphy L (BH/LMI) wrote:

> Hi,
>    I am getting the following error when I run :
>
> /usr/local/bin/ethereal & 
> ld.so.1: ./ethereal: fatal: libXext.so.0: open failed: No such file or directory
>
> I try to export the display to another machine which I have done successfully. I have also run xhost + on the other machine.
>
> I notice ld.so.1 is in three directories on the machine:
>
> /usr/lib
> /usr/lib/sparcv9/
> /etc/lib
>
> I dont know where ethereal looks for this particular file ld.so.1. Can I move ld.so.1 to another directory so that ethereal picks it up successfully or am i doing somethin else wrong.
>
> All the correct packages are installed:
>
> gtk+ 1.2.10
> glib
> zlib
> lipcap
> ethereal 0.10.10
>
> Any suggestions would be great.
>
> thanks
> william
>
>
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