Im new to Linux (that is to say I have some knowledge, but not very much) and Im having real trouble with a Domino installation on Debian.
The domino version is 6.0.1 CF1 and the kernel version is 2.4.20.
Effectively, Im having to restart the two partitioned domino instances on the box each day, if not rebooting the whole box. It is fine for a while, but the servers start to run worse as the day drags on. While the server is still running, I’ll often get ‘Unable to locate program errors’ when the server is trying to run tasks autonomously and then after a while the server crashes, usually with mentioning something to do with ‘not being able to fork’ or the resource is currently in use.
From my novice point of view, some tasks in Domino appear to be grabbing resources from the OS but not relinquishing them when the task has finished, meaning that the server instance is fine to start with but will incrementally run itself into the ground.
When I do a top command, it shows an awful lot of server tasks running.
I also am not able to run the http taks as this doesnt allow the server to function at all.
Any help would be much appreciated and I am willing to dig up as much information as needed to solve this issue.
Subject: Don’t think debian is a supported distro?
As far as I know, only RedHat 7.2 and up, and Suse are supported Linux distributions. If you get it running on Debian, that’s fine… but IBM is not going to give you any support on that installation. You may want to switch to RedHat or Suse!
You can try this site www.dominux.net, French web site dedicated to Domino & Linux. THere is an article on how to install Domino 6 on Debian distrib (the one that this site uses)
It’s in French but maybe you can contact the author directly.
ps : notice that it also host a domBulletin beta 3 discussion (ok I’m the developper of this OpenNTF stuff, I had to promote it a little ;-))
Subject: RE: Domino on Debian Linux - Major issues
I am also runnin Domino on Debian. I am running Build V65_M1_04032003NP on debian Woody (bf24) Domino is running without a problem. The http server is also up and running. The site of the French guy mentioned above has an error in the URL for downloading the java2 sdk 1.3.1. The correct URL for Debian Woody is: ‘deb ftp://ftp.oleane.net/pub/java-linux/debian main woody non-free’
I had to run the command: ln -s libstdc+±libc6.2-2.so.3 libstdc+±libc6.1-1.so.2
Before my server worked well.
One proble I have not solved is installing Domino 6.5 the official release. Domino keeps crashing But M1 is running ‘OK’
Subject: RE: Domino on Debian Linux - Major issues
We are in the same boat. Just a small question:Do you have X installed on the machine where Domino is crashing?
I facing the following strange situation. I have two SMB systems:
one without X installed - this is where 6.0.3 and 6.5 are crashing and
an old testing machine with Gnome 2.2 backported.
Domino 6.5 is running fine on the old machine which has X installed.
I still have to verify if both machines (all running the same version of Woody 3.0) have the exact same libraries installed, but it looks like the only major difference is that one machine has X and the other machine does not have X installed.
This is just a clue.
Please post any findings of yours if you have more information on why Domino is crashing on Debian Woody.
Following the precise instructions helped me to get 6.5 running on SMP Debian Linux running the Linux kernel: 2.4.21.4.p4-smp (soon to be upgraded to 2.4.23)
I really enjoy this Linux community spirit of helping each other in this forum.
My special thanks go to the original author of the referenced posting: Ian Cherrill
Subject: RE: Domino on Debian Linux - Major issues
Hi,
I am a Debian Junkie too. My server is currently running 6.5 on Debian Woody with a custom 2.4.21 kernel. The 6.5 install included the IBM JVM (so no need for an extra-download). So far the server runs fine (well it disappeared once without any crash or nsd files).
I have not yet done the extra work recompiling glibc as recommended in the Redbook.
But M1 is running ‘OK’