xfce-mcs-manager crashing

[Greg Bell]

>> It's crashing in the runtime link editor (while relocating a symbol),
>> that's all I can tell from the backtrace. The question is now: What
>> module is being loaded? And why does that module crash the runtime linker?
>
> Greg: Maybe you could try running both gdb and strace at it, that may
> give info on what it is trying to do.

simultaneously didn't work.  separately yielded the below.  the thing is, 
libXcursor is in /usr/X11R6/lib, which is in my /etc/ld.conf.  ld.so.cache 
is up-to-date, and i see libXcursor in it.

i don't know why xfce-mcs-manager is looking in /usr/lib/tls and 
/usr/lib/i686.

open("/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY)      = 12
fstat64(12, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=56438, ...}) = 0
old_mmap(NULL, 56438, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 12, 0) = 0xb7ba0000
close(12)                               = 0
open("/lib/tls/i686/libXcursor.so.1.0.2", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such 
file or
  directory)
open("/lib/tls/libXcursor.so.1.0.2", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file 
or dire
ctory)
open("/lib/i686/libXcursor.so.1.0.2", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file 
or dir
ectory)
open("/lib/libXcursor.so.1.0.2", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or 
director
y)
open("/usr/lib/tls/i686/libXcursor.so.1.0.2", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No 
such fil
e or directory)
open("/usr/lib/tls/libXcursor.so.1.0.2", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such 
file or
directory)
open("/usr/lib/i686/libXcursor.so.1.0.2", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such 
file or
  directory)
open("/usr/lib/libXcursor.so.1.0.2", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file 
or dire
ctory)
munmap(0xb7ba0000, 56438)               = 0
open("/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY)      = 12
fstat64(12, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=56438, ...}) = 0
old_mmap(NULL, 56438, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 12, 0) = 0xb7ba0000
close(12)                               = 0
open("/lib/tls/i686/libXcursor.so.1.0", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such 
file or d
irectory)
open("/lib/tls/libXcursor.so.1.0", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or 
direct
ory)
open("/lib/i686/libXcursor.so.1.0", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or 
direc
tory)
open("/lib/libXcursor.so.1.0", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or 
directory)
open("/usr/lib/tls/i686/libXcursor.so.1.0", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such 
file
or directory)
open("/usr/lib/tls/libXcursor.so.1.0", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file 
or di
rectory)
open("/usr/lib/i686/libXcursor.so.1.0", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such 
file or d
irectory)
open("/usr/lib/libXcursor.so.1.0", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or 
direct
ory)
munmap(0xb7ba0000, 56438)               = 0
--- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) @ 0 (0) ---