Linux compat library error: ELF file OS ABI invalid

[Tijl Coosemans]

On Tuesday 13 May 2008 19:27:19 Glyn Millington wrote:
> Tijl Coosemans <tijl at ulyssis.org> writes:
>> On Tuesday 13 May 2008 17:49:02 Glyn Millington wrote:
>>> glyn at glynthebearded:~$ /usr/compat/linux/bin/sh realplay
>>> 
>>> /usr/local/lib/RealPlayer/realplay.bin: error while loading shared
>>> libraries: /usr/local/lib/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0: ELF file OS ABI invalid
>>> 
>>> 
>>> I'll bet it wants this one :-)
>>> 
>>> /usr/compat/linux/usr/lib/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0
>>> 
>>> 
>>> and of course I have just linked /usr/compat/linux/usr/local to X11R6
>>
>> That's suspicious, realplayer just works for me. Do you have some LD_*
>> variable defined in your environment?
> 
> Ah! (bangs head against wall!)   Yes I do:-
> 
> in ~/.bashrc  
> 
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/usr/local/lib:/usr/local/share/squeak/3.7-7"
> 
> Having removed that realplayer comes up with no problem.
> 
> Should have spotted that one :-(     
> 
> So many thanks for solving both my problems today!  

:) Your welcome. Does OpenOffice actually still need that symlink now?