Netscape doesnot run after install

[Haitham Hamad]

I just installed netscape 4.75 on HP 11.00. When I run netscape , I got the following error

/usr/lib/dld.sl: Unresolved symbol: _XmMsgPanedW_0002 (data) from /op/netscape/netsacpe
/usr/lib/dld.sl: Unresolved symbol: _XmMsgPanedW_0001 (data) from /op/netscape/netsacpe
/usr/lib/dld.sl: Unresolved symbol: _XmMsgPanedW_0000 (data) from /op/netscape/netsacpe
/usr/lib/dld.sl: Unresolved symbol: _XmMsgPanedW_0004 (data) from /op/netscape/netsacpe
/usr/lib/dld.sl: Unresolved symbol: _XmMsgPanedW_0005 (data) from /op/netscape/netsacpe
Abort (coredump)

SHLIB_PATH doesnot show anything as so it does on my other server where I have netscape running?

TIA,
Haitham

[Bill McNAMARA_1]

make sure you installed the dependancies.
You may need an Xserver/Xlib update.

Bill

[Kofi ARTHIABAH]

You definately need that SHLIB_PATH set - so create a file /etc/SHLIB_PATH that contains :

/usr/lib:/usr/lib/X11R5

then log out and back in, that should fix you right up.

good luck

[Haitham Hamad]

I found out that my running netscape is 4.73, so I removed 4.75, installed 4.73 and it ran fine. There is a SHLIB_PATH file under /etc but I can't see it as an environment variable!.

[Edward Hume]

I am having the same problem with a freshly installed hp-ux 11 system and netscape 4.78 as built for hp-ux 11. The problem exists whether netscape is installed from the HP provided depot file, or from the .gz distribution from ftp.netscape.com The advice to use SHLIB_PATH does not fix the problem.

If I use chatr on netscape, I see the dynamic library dependencies:

$ chatr netscape
netscape:
shared executable
shared library dynamic path search:
SHLIB_PATH enabled second
embedded path disabled first Not Defined
shared library list:
dynamic /usr/lib/Motif2.1/libXm.4
dynamic /usr/lib/X11R6/libXt.3
dynamic /usr/lib/X11R6/libX11.3
dynamic /usr/lib/X11R6/libXext.3
dynamic /opt/audio/lib/libAlib.2
dynamic /usr/lib/libdld.2
dynamic /usr/lib/libm.2
dynamic /usr/lib/libstd.2
dynamic /usr/lib/libstream.2
dynamic /usr/lib/libCsup.2
dynamic /usr/lib/libcl.2
dynamic /usr/lib/libc.2

Every one of these libraries exists on my system and is readable by me. Using nm, I can show that the libXm.4 file does in fact export the Unresolved symbols:

$ nm libXm.4 | grep -i XmMsgPan
_XmMsgPanedW_0000 |1073975936|extern|data |$SHORTDATA$
_XmMsgPanedW_0001 |1073975932|extern|data |$SHORTDATA$
_XmMsgPanedW_0002 |1073975928|extern|data |$SHORTDATA$
_XmMsgPanedW_0004 |1073975924|extern|data |$SHORTDATA$
_XmMsgPanedW_0005 |1073975920|extern|data |$SHORTDATA$
$ pwd
/usr/lib/Motif2.1

This is a new system and only the HP Ansi C compiler, and Oracle 8.1.7 have been installed.

[Edward Hume]

I found that this problem went away with installing the latest patch bundle (June 2001). It is definitely a real problem with the dynamic linking/loading system software and not a user problem with setting up SHLIB_PATH. It turns out that my hp-ux 11 install image which I obtained recently as part of the HP-UX Developers Toolkit, (Part B9413), has file images dated from Feb 9, 2000, and has this problem.