Re: Maya 8.5 startup error Suse 10.2

I ran into a similar problem, which I fixed.
result from strace: Fatal Error. Attempting to save in
/tmp/localuser.20070919.0614.ma
)               = ? ERESTARTNOHAND (To be restarted)
--- SIGCHLD (Child exited) @ 0 (0) ---
wait4(-1, [{WIFEXITED(s) && WEXITSTATUS(s) == 1}], WNOHANG,
{ru_utime={8, 636539}, ru_stime={0, 392024}, ...}) = 1586
wait4(-1, 0xbfb5bba8, WNOHANG, 0xbfb5bb60) = -1 ECHILD (No child processes)
sigreturn()                             = ? (mask now [INT CHLD])
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might make you think there is a problem writing to the temp file.
This is not the case. there is a problem loading the GL libraries which may or
may not be directly related to the NVIDIA distribution.
Regardless process to fix follows:

~ > su
~ # cd /usr/autodesk/maya8.5/lib
   # ln -s /usr/X11/lib/libGL.so.1 libGL.so
   # strace maya
--   lots of debugging ---
window opens and desktop initializes