[R-sig-Fedora] [R] Failure to load X11 module in Fedora 13.

[Tom "spot" Callaway]

On 07/06/2010 03:01 PM, Carlo Tambuatco wrote:

> This is what ls revealed about my /usr/local/lib directory:
> 
> total 4344
> drwxr-xr-x. 3 root root    4096 Jun 19 17:04 blender
> drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root    4096 Jun 15 17:15 codecs
> -rw-r--r--. 1 root root   94132 Jun 15 17:04 libdvdcss.a
> -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root     822 Jun 15 17:04 libdvdcss.la
> lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root      18 Jun 15 17:04 libdvdcss.so ->
> libdvdcss.so.2.1.0
> lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root      18 Jun 15 17:04 libdvdcss.so.2 ->
> libdvdcss.so.2.1.0
> -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root   74687 Jun 15 17:04 libdvdcss.so.2.1.0
> -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 2486916 Jun 19 06:29 libfreetype.a
> -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root     824 Jun 19 06:29 libfreetype.la
> lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root      20 Jun 19 06:29 libfreetype.so ->
> libfreetype.so.6.3.8
> lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root      20 Jun 19 06:29 libfreetype.so.6 ->
> libfreetype.so.6.3.8
> -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 1765321 Jun 19 06:29 libfreetype.so.6.3.8
> drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root    4096 Jun 19 06:29 pkgconfig

This is your problem. R (well, the X11 part of it anyways) is looking
for libfreetype, finding the copy in /usr/local (I'm guessing blender
put it there) which doesn't match the system libfontconfig.so and things
explode from there.

The simplest solution would be for you to delete libfreetype* from
/usr/local/lib, although, there is a chance that whatever third party
app put those library files in /usr/local/lib might stop working.

~spot