It's a newly installed box, stable tree except kde3.5 and kernel, which is testing. On my old x86 box, the libXext.so comes with xorg, under /usr/lib. Is there any solution to provide that 32bit-library for openoffice ? # listinstalled |grep xorg x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.2-r7 # find / -name "libXext.so.6" /usr/lib64/libXext.so.6 # ldd /usr/lib32/openoffice/program/soffice.bin |grep found libXext.so.6 => not found libSM.so.6 => not found libICE.so.6 => not found libX11.so.6 => not found libfreetype.so.6 => not found libX11.so.6 => not found libX11.so.6 => not found Another one of the not found libraries is within the lib64 # locate libSM.so.6 /usr/lib64/libSM.so.6.0 /usr/lib64/libSM.so.6 # strace /usr/lib32/openoffice/program/soffice.bin ... open("/usr/lib32/openoffice/program/libvos3gcc3.so", O_RDONLY) = 3 read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0P\0\1\000"..., 512) = 512 fstat64(0x3, 0xffffb350) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 117136, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0xfffffffff75ad000 mmap2(0xf75c8000, 8192, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x1a) = 0xfffffffff75c8000 close(3) = 0 open("/usr/lib32/openoffice/program/libuno_cppuhelpergcc3.so.3", O_RDONLY) = 3 read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\300\37"..., 512) = 512 fstat64(0x3, 0xffffb334) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 386992, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0xfffffffff754e000 mmap2(0xf759f000, 57344, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x50) = 0xfffffffff759f000 close(3) = 0 open("/usr/lib32/openoffice/program/libuno_cppu.so.3", O_RDONLY) = 3 read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\300;\0"..., 512) = 512 fstat64(0x3, 0xffffb318) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 219452, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0xfffffffff7518000 mmap2(0xf7547000, 28672, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x2e) = 0xfffffffff7547000 close(3) = 0 open("/usr/lib32/openoffice/program/libuno_sal.so.3", O_RDONLY) = 3 read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\220:\1"..., 512) = 512 fstat64(0x3, 0xffffb2fc) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xfffffffff7517000 mmap2(NULL, 1767836, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0xfffffffff7367000 mmap2(0xf7503000, 81920, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x19c) = 0xfffffffff7503000 close(3) = 0 open("/usr/lib32/openoffice/program/libtk680li.so", O_RDONLY) = 3 read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0`u\6\000"..., 512) = 512 fstat64(0x3, 0xffffb2e0) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 2109324, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0xfffffffff7164000 mmap2(0xf7301000, 413696, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x19d) = 0xfffffffff7301000 mmap2(0xf7366000, 3980, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xfffffffff7366000 close(3) = 0 open("/usr/lib32/openoffice/program/libXext.so.6", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY) = 3 fstat64(0x3, 0xffffb250) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 56190, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0xfffffffff7156000 close(3) = 0 open("/lib/tls/i686/sse2/libXext.so.6", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) stat64(0xffffb240, 0xffffb2c4) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/lib/tls/i686/libXext.so.6", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) stat64(0xffffb240, 0xffffb2c4) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/lib/tls/sse2/libXext.so.6", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) stat64(0xffffb240, 0xffffb2c4) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/lib/tls/libXext.so.6", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) stat64(0xffffb240, 0xffffb2c4) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/lib/i686/sse2/libXext.so.6", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) stat64(0xffffb240, 0xffffb2c4) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/lib/i686/libXext.so.6", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) stat64(0xffffb240, 0xffffb2c4) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/lib/sse2/libXext.so.6", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) stat64(0xffffb240, 0xffffb2c4) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/lib/libXext.so.6", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) stat64(0xffffb240, 0xffffb2c4) = 0 open("/usr/lib/tls/i686/sse2/libXext.so.6", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) stat64(0xffffb240, 0xffffb2c4) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/usr/lib/tls/i686/libXext.so.6", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) stat64(0xffffb240, 0xffffb2c4) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/usr/lib/tls/sse2/libXext.so.6", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) stat64(0xffffb240, 0xffffb2c4) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/usr/lib/tls/libXext.so.6", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) stat64(0xffffb240, 0xffffb2c4) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/usr/lib/i686/sse2/libXext.so.6", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) stat64(0xffffb240, 0xffffb2c4) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/usr/lib/i686/libXext.so.6", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) stat64(0xffffb240, 0xffffb2c4) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/usr/lib/sse2/libXext.so.6", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) stat64(0xffffb240, 0xffffb2c4) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/usr/lib/libXext.so.6", O_RDONLY) = 3 read(3, "\177ELF\2\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0>\0\1\0\0\0\2005\0\0"..., 512) = 512 close(3) = 0 stat64(0xffffb240, 0xffffb2c4) = 0 writev(2, [{umovestr: Input/output error 0x29ffffd5d2, 12749783152}, {umovestr: Input/output error 0x24f7f23388, 12749783156}, {umovestr: Input/output error 0xcf751756f, 12749783147}, {umovestr: Input/output error 0x1ef7517550, 12749783147}, {umovestr: Input/output error 0x19f7f24405, 8454815872}, {NULL, 0}, {NULL, 0}, {NULL, 0}, {NULL, 0}, {NULL, 0}], 10/usr/lib32/openoffice/program/soffice.bin: error while loading shared libraries: libXext.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory ) = 153 exit_group(127) = ? # emerge --info Portage 2.0.54 (!/usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/amd64/2006.0, gcc-3.4.5, glibc-2.3.5-r3, 2.6.16-gentoo-r4 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.16-gentoo-r4 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4600+ Gentoo Base System version 1.6.14 dev-lang/python: 2.4.3-r1 dev-util/ccache: [Not Present] dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=k8 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -ffast-math" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/eselect/compiler /etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=k8 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -ffast-math" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks fixpackages sandbox sfperms strict strip" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://192.168.0.10/gentoo/ ftp://pandemonium.tiscali.de/pub/gentoo/ http://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo" LANG="de_DE@euro" LINGUAS="de" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/mnt/scratch/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/mnt/scratch/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/mnt/scratch/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage/" USE="amd64 X acpi alsa apm arts audiofile avi bash-completion bitmap-fonts bluetooth browserplugin bzip2 bzlib cdr cle266 cli crypt dedicated dga dio divx4linux dri dvd dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode exif expat fam fbcon ffmpeg fftw flash foomaticdb fortran ftp gd gdbm glx gmp gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 icq idn imagemagick imap imlib ipv6 isdnlog java jpeg junit kde kdeenablefinal lcms libwww lirc lm_sensors lzw lzw-tiff mad mikmod mime mng motif mozilla mozsvg mp3 mpeg mpi mythtv ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin nvidia offensive ogg opengl pam pcntl pcre pdflib perl png pnp posix pppd pthreads python qt quicktime readline reflection samba sdl session shared sharedmem snmp sockets socks5 source speex spell spl ssl svg sysvipc tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb v4l vcd vhosts videos www xml xml2 xmms xorg xosd xpm xv xvid zeroconf zlib video_cards_nv video_cards_nvidia video_cards_vesa linguas_de userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY # listinstalled |grep emul app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-java-1.4.2.03-r1 app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-compat-1.0-r1 app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-baselibs-2.4.2 app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-soundlibs-2.3 app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-xlibs-2.2.2 app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-sdl-2.3
strace shows that /usr/lib/libXext.so.6 is being read, but it seems to be the wrong version. # less /usr/lib/libXext.so.6 ELF Header: Magic: 7f 45 4c 46 02 01 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 Class: ELF64 Data: 2's complement, little endian Version: 1 (current) OS/ABI: UNIX - System V ABI Version: 0 Type: DYN (Shared object file) Machine: Advanced Micro Devices X86-64 Version: 0x1 Entry point address: 0x3580 Start of program headers: 64 (bytes into file) Start of section headers: 69488 (bytes into file) Flags: 0x0 Size of this header: 64 (bytes) Size of program headers: 56 (bytes) Number of program headers: 6 Size of section headers: 64 (bytes) Number of section headers: 25 Section header string table index: 24 Dynamic section at offset 0x10028 contains 23 entries: Tag Type Name/Value 0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED) Shared library: [libX11.so.6] 0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED) Shared library: [libXau.so.6] 0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED) Shared library: [libc.so.6] 0x000000000000000e (SONAME) Library soname: [libXext.so.6] 0x000000000000000c (INIT) 0x3210 0x000000000000000d (FINI) 0xe358 0x0000000000000004 (HASH) 0x190 0x0000000000000005 (STRTAB) 0x18e0 0x0000000000000006 (SYMTAB) 0x6b0 0x000000000000000a (STRSZ) 3117 (bytes) 0x000000000000000b (SYMENT) 24 (bytes) 0x0000000000000003 (PLTGOT) 0x110228 0x0000000000000002 (PLTRELSZ) 1248 (bytes) 0x0000000000000014 (PLTREL) RELA 0x0000000000000017 (JMPREL) 0x2d30 0x0000000000000007 (RELA) 0x26b8 0x0000000000000008 (RELASZ) 1656 (bytes) 0x0000000000000009 (RELAENT) 24 (bytes) 0x000000006ffffffe (VERNEED) 0x2698 0x000000006fffffff (VERNEEDNUM) 1 0x000000006ffffff0 (VERSYM) 0x250e 0x000000006ffffff9 (RELACOUNT) 59 0x0000000000000000 (NULL) 0x0
re-emerging emul-linux-x86-xlibs got me the /emu tree back. But - I have no clue why it wasn't there anymore, since i saw it installing a few days before. oo bug solved.
I had exactly the same problem with openoffice-bin-2.2.1. libXext.so.6 and the file this symlink was pointing to (libXext.so.6.4.0) were present in /emul/linux/x86/libs, but ooffice failed to start. After upgrading emul-linux-x86-xlibs it worked again.
