[DebianGIS-dev] Bug#550196: Bug#550196: Bug#550196: libgrass_edit.so: cannot open shared object file

[Francesco P. Lovergine]

On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 10:55:35AM +0200, Guy Roussin wrote:
> 
> >>Package: grass
> >>Version: 6.4.0~rc5-3
> >>Severity: normal
> >>
> >>Hi,
> >>
> >>I run grass in gui mode. I select an empty "GIS data Directory"
> >>(i create it before). And i click on <Projection values> button
> >>and i get this error :
> >>
> >>=================================================================
> >>If you wish to resize the X monitor, do so now. Window size is
> >>locked while interactive modules are running.
> >>=================================================================
> >>
> >>/usr/lib/grass64/etc/set_data: error while loading shared libraries: libgrass_edit.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
> >>
> >
> >Would you please check what's your ld.so.conf (and subdirs) contents?
> >At least with current grass in sid it works perfectly.
> Yes grass works fine in sid.
> 
> In my student config (debian lenny) the file /etc/ld.so.conf.d/grass.conf
> is missing. Now i add it, reboot and all is fine with grass.
> I don't know why this file is missing ...
> 
> echo "/usr/lib/grass64/lib" > /etc/ld.so.conf.d/grass.conf
> and reboot
> 
> Thank you Francesco,
> 

That's wrong. You don't need /usr/lib/grass64/lib to run grass. If you need that
that's something definitively wrong with your setup. This is at least as strange
as the X monitor warning at startup. This is not an official backports for lenny,
isn't it?

-- 
Francesco P. Lovergine