Bug 142583

Summary:	xfce-extras/Terminal and gnome-terminal fail to find libGLcore.so.1
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Don Allen <dca>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED TEST-REQUEST
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	2006.0
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Don Allen 2006-08-02 14:06:25 UTC

On a Thinkpad G41 system that was brought up-to-date this past weekend, neither xfce-extras/Terminal nor gnome-terminal will run:

dca@elektra ~ $ Terminal
Terminal: error while loading shared libraries: libGLcore.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

dca@elektra ~ $ gnome-terminal
gnome-terminal: error while loading shared libraries: libGLcore.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
dca@elektra ~ $ 

The library *is* present on the system, and doing

dca@elektra ~ $ export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/usr/lib/opengl/nvidia/lib

works around this problem.

Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-08-02 14:14:01 UTC

Run eselect opengl set nvidia.

Comment 2 Don Allen 2006-08-02 19:03:35 UTC

Thanks for the help. In building nvidia-drivers, it does say "* To use the Nvidia GLX, run "eselect opengl set nvidia". But I contend this is

a. far too cryptic. How is the average user to know what the Nvidia GLX is and whether they want to use it or not?
b. when the nvidia-drivers package is installed, that's a pretty good indication that I want to use it. It should take care of whatever setup is necessary, rather than issuing cryptic messages for the user to run random commands.
c. I've been running Gentoo on my Nvidia-equipped box (a Thinkpad G41 for many months now) and I tend to keep the system pretty up to date and have never run into this before. In other words, running this command is a sudden new requirement and, in my opinion, a step backwards, for the reasons I gave above.