[CentOS] Cannot get LD_LIBRARY_PATH to work under NX (freenx)

Mon Jun 8 19:25:10 UTC 2009
Jeff <jlar310 at gmail.com>

On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 2:04 PM, Andrzej Szymanski<szymans at agh.edu.pl> wrote:
> Filipe Brandenburger wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 14:38, Andrzej Szymanski<szymans at agh.edu.pl> wrote:
>>> Everything works fine under standard ssh login, but under NX client the
>>> LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable is missing (the R_HISTSIZE is exported properly).
>>>
>>> Any hints?
>>
>> This is probably not related to NX, but to the terminal emulator you
>> are using (gnome-terminal, kterm, etc.). Some of them do not open
>> "login" shells (the ones that read .bash_profile) but only
>> "interactive" shells (the ones that read .bashrc).
>>
>> Moving those lines from .bash_profile to .bashrc should work for both
>> cases (as .bash_profile usually sources .bashrc) and solve your
>> problem in both SSH sessions and NX sessions.
>>
>> HTH,
>> Filipe
>
> Thanks for a fast resolution.
>
> However, moving this to .bashrc is a workaround. If I log in graphically
> to the console the LD_LIBRARY_PATH from .bash_profile is set correctly.
> It is unset only on NX session (and the other settings from
> .bash_profile are set properly, so this file is definitely parsed during
> nx session startup).

Can you just skip the whole LD_LIBRARY_PATH thing and configure
libraries at the system level?

man ldconfig

Jeff