Various Reports on SuSE Linux 8.1 / Problems during load of shared libraries

Hello list-members,

various people on this list and some other folks reported a problem
during httpsetup on SuSE Linux Profssional 8.1.

We state that Domino is certified for the use with the SuSE Linux
Enterprise Server 7 and is fully testet there. We offer products (SuSE
Linux Groupware Server and a Domino Extension Kit for ES customers) on
this platform.

Of course you can use Domino on SuSE Linux 8.1 (for testing purpose, for
instance), but we cannot give support for this platform.

Nevertheless, people saw error messages like:

notes@ibm:/local/notesdata> /opt/lotus/bin/http httpsetup
/opt/lotus/notes/latest/linux/http: error while loading shared
libraries: libpthread.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file
or directory

This is a known problem with the dynamical linker and an environment
variable used in the Domino startup script. This problem is WIP and ATM
I can only recommend the following workaround for testing purposes:

Edit as user root the file /opt/lotus/bin/http (or the real location
/opt/lotus/notes/latest/linux/startup):

You will find the Lines (178ff in 5.0.10):

----------------------------------------------------------------------
                # Set variable to work around issue with memory stack in
                # glibc 2.2
                # which Java cannot handle - once it can, then disable
                # this
                export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5
                ;;
------------------------------------------------------------------------

Comment the "export" statement, that this snippet looks like:

-----------------------------------------------------------------------
		# Set variable to work around issue with memory stack in glibc 2.2
                # which Java cannot handle - once it can, then disable
                # this
                #export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5
                ;;
-----------------------------------------------------------------------

Now httpsetp should work as expected and the server can be started
afterwards.

Feedback on this list welcome.

With kind regards,
Ingo Boernig

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