libXmu.so: cannot open shared object file: Too many levels of symbolic links

shupi · 07-05-2006, 01:09 AM

hi frens,
I was trying to run a software Biosuite on redhat linux workstation 4.0. Firstly I got the message

"libGL.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Unable to resolve GL/GLX symbols - please check your GL library installation"

I searched for the error and I got the answer to make a symbolic link as libGl.so.1 file was present in /usr/lib. I used this

"ln -s /usr/lib/libGL.so.1 /usr/lib/libGL.so"

It worked and now when I again tried to run the software, I got the error as

"libXmu.so: cannot open shared object file: Too many levels of symbolic links
Unable to resolve Xmu symbols - please check your Xmu library installation"

So I again tried this

"#ln -s /usr/X11R6/lib/libXmu.so.6 /usr/X11R6/lib/libXmu.so" as the library file libXmu.so.6 was present in /usr/X11R6/lib but now I got the error again.

Can somebody help me.I am a naive user to linux.

Kindly help.

r0b0 · 07-05-2006, 02:42 AM

It looks like the file /usr/X11R6/lib/libXmu.so.6 is already a symboli link to another file.

Can you please do 'ls -l /usr/X11R6/lib/libXmu.so*' ?

shupi · 07-05-2006, 06:01 AM

Thanx for the reply. Ya i tried that and i got this message.it seems from the message that there is only one link to this file.If there is any problem then please help me to resolve that....please

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 26 Aug 1 11:23 /usr/X11R6/lib/libXmu.so -> /usr/X1lR6/l ib/libXmu.so.6