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

[Les Mikesell]

On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 9:02 AM, Alex Aminoff <aminoff at nber.org> wrote:

>>> I have x2go from EPEL and freenx from CentOS installed on the same box
>> and everything seems to work from either kind of session.   What
>> should be broken?
>>
> The basic problem is that nx-libs-3.5.0.22 from epel comes with
> /etc/ld.conf.so.d/nx-libs*.conf, which inserts /usr/lib64/nx into the search
> path for libraries for ldconfig before the standard locations. So everything
> that would normally be linked to /usr/lib64/libX11.so instead links to
> /usr/lib64/nx/libX11.so.

On my system with freenx and x2go:

ls -l /usr/lib64/nx
total 1084
 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 29 11:02 bin
 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Jan 29 11:02 libXcompext.so.3 -> libXcompext.so.3.5.0
 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 64936 Jan 5 21:59 libXcompext.so.3.5.0
 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 Jan 29 11:02 libXcompshad.so.3 ->
libXcompshad.so.3.5.0
 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 45200 Jan 5 21:59 libXcompshad.so.3.5.0
 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Jan 29 11:01 libXcomp.so.3 -> libXcomp.so.3.5.0
 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 985536 Jan 5 21:59 libXcomp.so.3.5.0
 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jan 29 11:02 X11

> This is fine as long as that version of libX11.so
> is OK,

Do you actually have a libX11.so there?  What package supplied it?

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   Les Mikesell
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