Shared object "libintl.so.6" not found

[Leslie Jensen]

Gerard Seibert wrote:
> FreeBSD-6.2
> 
> After booting up my system, I receive an error message:
> 
> Shared object "libintl.so.6" not found
> 
> This file should be in /usr/local/lib, but it isn't. I have no idea why.
> I can now only log in as root. Since I am not sure where this file even
> came from, I don't know how to replace it.
> 
> I assume I don't have to reinstall the OS (I hope) so where do I go from
> here?
> 
> Thanks!
> 


I've just been through that! Reinstalling gettext won't solve this!

Take a look in

cd /usr/local/lib

And make a link
ln -s libintl.so.8 libintl.so.6

Also read /usr/ports/UPDATING it says

20070318:
   AFFECTS: users of devel/gettext (ie: YOU)
   AUTHOR: ade at FreeBSD.org

   As a result of the upgrade to gettext-0.16.1, the shared library version
   of libintl has changed, so you will need to rebuild all ports that
   depend on gettext (ie: most of them, sorry).

   portupgrade -rf gettext
   portmaster -r gettext

/Leslie