[Paraview] failed to start paraview due to ligGL.so

[Dominik Szczerba]

Wrong ELF class sounds to me like using 32 bits version while 64 is 
expected. Run ldd to see what is missing. Then see the linker 
configuration and/or LD_LIBRARY_PATH for library search order.
-- Dominik

Pei-Ying Hsieh wrote:
> 
> Dear Paraview Group:
> 
> I have a couple of workstations running OpenSuSE 10.3 64 bit OS.  These 
> systems should have similar configurations, but, not identical.  I 
> downloaded pre-compiled paraview (version 3.2.1, linux, I believe it is 
> 32 bit).  On some system, paraview starts without any problem, but, some 
> system failed to start paraview, with the following error:
> --------------------------------
> phsieh at huwei:~/paraview/paraview-3.2.1-Linux-x86/bin> ./paraview
> /home/phsieh/paraview/paraview-3.2.1-Linux-x86/lib/paraview-3.2/paraview-real: 
> error while loading shared libraries: libGL.so.1: wrong ELF class: 
> ELFCLASS64
> phsieh at huwei:~/paraview/paraview-3.2.1-Linux-x86/bin>
> ---------------------------------
> 
> Under /usr/lib64, I do have libGL.so (.so, .so.1, .so.169.12).  Anyway, 
> I created soft link to /usr/lib, so now, I have /usr/lib/libGL.so (and 
> .so.1, .so.169.12).  But, Still the same problem.
> 
> Can someone shed some light on this problem?  How to fix this?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Pei
> 
> 
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Dominik Szczerba, Ph.D.
Biomedical Simulation Group
Computer Vision Lab CH-8092 Zurich
http://www.vision.ee.ethz.ch/~domi