ATI Drivers Sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH (Was Re: What is LD_LIBRARY_PATH? (Was Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice 2.3.1 Won't Start As User))

[Drew Tomlinson]

Willie Wong wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 09:52:39AM -0800, Penguin Lover Drew Tomlinson squawked:
>
>> There are no error messages.  When starting as a user, the splash
>> graphic just sits there and the CPU usage is basically 100% for both X
>> and oosplash.bin.  When starting as root, the splash graphic starts and
>> then a progress bar at the bottom of the splash graphic progresses in
>> about 10 seconds and OpenOffice starts.  The progress bar never
>> progresses when starting as a user.  I have to kill oosplash.bin with
>> signal 15 after starting as a user to return my system to normal.
>>
>> Some more Googling turned up this post:
>>
>> http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-623771-postdays-0-postorder-asc-start-25.html?sid=1514fa8e48f6a12a86c6c66e920161e9
>>
>> I found that when I su to root, LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not defined.  As a
>> user, it is defined as:
>>
>> LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib32/xorg:/usr/lib64/xorg
>>
>> If I unset LD_LIBRARY_PATH in a user terminal, then OpenOffice starts.
>> So what is LD_LIBRARY_PATH and why am I seeing this behavior?
>>
>>
>
> See
>
>  http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Admin/ld-lib-path.html
>  http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/LD_LIBRARY_PATH
>
> So the question is one of hunting down where this variable is set.
> Your .bashrc? Perhaps grepping through /etc/env.d?
>

Thank you for your reply.  The culprit appears to be 
/etc/profile.d/ati-fglrx.sh.  So if setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not a 
good idea, why does the ATI driver do so?  And more importantly, how can 
I workaround this issue?

Thanks,

Drew

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