googleearth & skype trouble

[Beech Rintoul]

On Friday 18 April 2008, Armin Pirkovitsch said:
> Hi!
>
>  There seems to be a problem with some linux applications eg.
> googleearth and skype.
>
> When I try to start them I get:
> <program>: error while loading shared libraries:
> /usr/lib/librt.so.1: ELF file OS ABI invalid
>
> My system:
> FreeBSD oh-sub1.local 8.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT #10: Fri Dec
> 14 14:36:15 CET 2007    
> sperber at oh-sub1.local:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/OH-SUB1 i386
>
> [sperber at oh-sub1] ~> sysctl -a |grep linux
> hw.snd.compat_linux_mmap: 0
> compat.linux.oss_version: 198144
> compat.linux.osrelease: 2.4.2
> compat.linux.osname: Linux
>
> [sperber at oh-sub1] ~> ls /var/db/pkg/ |grep linux
> linux-atk-1.9.1
> linux-cairo-1.0.2
> linux-expat-1.95.8
> linux-fontconfig-2.2.3_7
> linux-glib2-2.6.6
> linux-gtk2-2.6.10
> linux-jpeg-6b.34
> linux-libGLU-6.8.2
> linux-libsigc-2.0.17
> linux-nwnclient-1.68
> linux-pango-1.10.2
> linux-png-1.2.8_2
> linux-sdl-1.2.10,1
> linux-tiff-3.7.1
> linux-xorg-libs-6.8.2_5
> linux_base-fc-4_11
> linux_kdump-1.5_2
>
> kdumps of skype & googleearth:
> http://pastebin.com/m73adc53b
> http://pastebin.com/m13cd2e75
>
> skype-1.4.0.118_3,1
> google-earth-4.3.7191.6508 (new version provided by the maintainer)
>
> Any idea what could be wrong to cause that problem?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>  Armin

I don't know about google earth, but skype & skype-devel both require 
linux_base-fc6. Please follow the directions in UPDATING for skype to 
properly upgrade.

Beech
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