/usr/lib/ Symbolic Link Gets Over Written during boot

Question

To get the tri-monitor setup I want, I am using the libXinerama hack that allows me fake my layout.

In order to use this, I use a patched version of libXinerama and put it in /usr/lib and then change the libXinerama.so symbolic link to point to it:

[kbrandt@alpine: /usr/lib] ls -l libXinerama.*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  7286 2010-05-18 07:57 libXinerama.a
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    20 2011-02-27 19:59 libXinerama.so -> libXinerama.so.1.0.0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    20 2011-05-06 11:31 libXinerama.so.1 -> libXinerama.so.1.0.0
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  8659 2011-04-11 09:40 libXinerama.so.1.0.0
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10432 2011-02-27 20:01 libXinerama.so.1.0.0.back

This work fine, except on reboot it rewrites the link and points it to libXinerama.so.1.0.0.back which breaks my setup. What process is doing this, and how can I stop it from doing it?

Answer 1

Presumably ldconfig is being called somewhere, and libXinerama.so.1.0.0.back sorts after libXinerama.so.1.0.0 so it is being selected as the newest version of the library.

Why exactly do you need to patch the Xinerama extension's client library in the first place?