after thinking a little, i thought perhaps it was a problem with my PATH variable... so: [upgrdman at farrell upgrdman]$ sensors sensors: error while loading shared libraries: libsensors.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory [upgrdman at farrell upgrdman]$ su -c updatedb Password: [upgrdman at farrell upgrdman]$ locate libsensors.so.2 /usr/local/lib/libsensors.so.2.0.0 /usr/local/lib/libsensors.so.2 /home/upgrdman/lm_sensors-2.8.0/lib/libsensors.so.2.0.0 /home/upgrdman/lm_sensors-2.8.0/lib/libsensors.so.2 [upgrdman at farrell upgrdman]$ echo $PATH /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/home/upgrdman/bin [upgrdman at farrell upgrdman]$ export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/lib [upgrdman at farrell upgrdman]$ echo $PATH /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/home/upgrdman/bin:/usr/local/lib [upgrdman at farrell upgrdman]$ sensors sensors: error while loading shared libraries: libsensors.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory [upgrdman at farrell upgrdman]$ cd /usr/local/lib [upgrdman at farrell lib]$ ls bonobo libgaim-remote.so libmusicbrainz.so.2 mplayer gaim libgaim-remote.so.0 libmusicbrainz.so.2.0.1 netscape galeon libgaim-remote.so.0.0.0 libsensors.a pkgconfig libdha.so.0 libmusicbrainz.a libsensors.so libdha.so.0.1 libmusicbrainz.la libsensors.so.2 libgaim-remote.la libmusicbrainz.so libsensors.so.2.0.0 [upgrdman at farrell lib]$ sensors sensors: error while loading shared libraries: libsensors.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory [upgrdman at farrell lib]$ still no success :( jsut thought this information might help...sorry if it jsut wastes more of your time. thanks yet again, farrell farahbod
