Hello,

On May 14, 2012, at 11:50 , vivek chalotra wrote:

> Hello all,
> 
> I have just installed slc6.2 in my hp laptop but its giving an error while 
> opening emacs. pls look into the matter. below is the error:
> 
> [nidhi@localhost Desktop]$ emacs chap1
> emacs: error while loading shared libraries: libotf.so.0: cannot open shared 
> object file: No such file or directory
> [nidhi@localhost Desktop]$ emacs chap1&
> [1] 3637
> [nidhi@localhost Desktop]$ emacs: error while loading shared libraries: 
> libotf.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
> ^C
> [1]+  Exit 127                emacs chap1
> [nidhi@localhost Desktop]$ emacs
> emacs: error while loading shared libraries: libotf.so.0: cannot open shared 
> object file: No such file or directory
> [nidhi@localhost Desktop]$ emacs
> emacs           emacs-23.1      emacs-23.1-nox  emacsclient
> [nidhi@localhost Desktop]$ emacs test
> emacs: error while loading shared libraries: libotf.so.0: cannot open shared 
> object file: No such file or directory

that's upstream Bug #768457, which is not public for reasons beyond me. As of 
6.2, openmpi "provides" libotf.so.0 even though the libs are not in a location 
searched by default (and probably wouldn't work with emacs anyway).

The fix is to "yum install libotf".

Regards
        Stephan

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Stephan Wiesand
DESY - DV -
Platanenallee 6
15738 Zeuthen, Germany

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