DLD.SL error

[Jean LeFrancois]

When I try to start netscape I receive and error message "/usr/lib/dld.sl: Unresolved symbol: fpsetmask (code) from /share/tools/Netscape/netscape"
I realize that the DLD.SL is different on that machine and I would like to konw how can I update the DLD to be the same as my other HP station.

[federico_3]

Check your SHLIB_PATH variable ? it should be set to all sorts of library directories, oracle lib dir, /usr/lib, /usr/lib/X11etc. Try that.


federico

[Andreas Voss]

Hi,

you could check which patch has effect to dld.sl:
swlist -l file |grep dld.sl|grep PH

Do this on both machines and compare them.

Regards

[Berlene Herren · Accepted solution]

1. Remove SHLIB from your path:

export SHLIB_PATH=

Note: in this case, means to press the Enter key.
Do not enter anything else after you type
export SHLIB_PATH=.
This statement will null the value assigned to SHLIB_PATH.

2. Start the Netscape browser.

3. Remove SHLIB_PATH from your .profile to permanently correct the problem.

Berlene

[Theresa Patrie]

I know that this issue has been out there for a while, but we have just come across this problem. While it is true that unsetting SHLIB_PATH fixes the problem, there are some tools that need SHLIB_PATH set. Turns out that the problem is the /usr/lib entry in SHLIB_PATH. I don't know if anyone is interested in this anymore, but if anyone has any input, I'd be interested to hear it.
Thanks!

[Theresa Patrie]

After working with HP Support on this, we were able to modify the netscape executable so that it does not use SHLIB_PATH. We used the command "chatr +s disable netscape" to disable the searching of SHLIB_PATH for shared libraries. This works great. Another workaround we found was to modify our netscape wrapper script to unset SHLIB_PATH before actually invoking netscape. Thanks to HP Support!