[FreeNX-kNX] nx-libs RPM on linux messes up normal X

[Les Mikesell]

On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 11:34 AM, Alex Aminoff <aminoff at nber.org> wrote:
>
> Hi folks. I am wading into the world of library dependencies, dynamic
> linking, and ldconfig.
>
> Summary: We installed freenx-server on our RHEL clone (Scientific Linux 6.2)
> and eventually this caused some regular X software to break.
>
> The nx-libs rpm is 3.5.0.22-1.el6 from epel. It includes a bunch of
> libraries in /usr/lib64/nx/, including special (?) versions of libX11.so and
> libXext.so. The rpm also installs a file
> /etc/ld.so.conf.d/nx-libs-x86_64.conf , which tells ldconfig to add
> /usr/lib64/nx to the path in which to look for libraries. In fact after
> installing you can also see this with
> strings /etc/ld.so.cache | grep nx .
>
> The trouble with this is that NX's versions of these libraries are also then
> used by normal X programs, so I see
>
> [aminoff at perlw2 /etc]$ ldd /usr/bin/gedit | grep X11
>  libX11.so.6 => /usr/lib64/nx/libX11.so.6 (0x00007fc84f3f4000)
>
> And then gedit will not run with an error message about _XGetRequest symbol.

Can't help with this problem (and I rarely use normal X myself...) but
I think the nx libs are now maintained for or by the x2go project
although they still work with freenx.

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   Les Mikesell
     lesmikesell at gmail.com