Ubuntu 8.5 client problems

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Just switched over to the linux platform and am seeing a number of problems - slowness, hangs and crashes.

Current situation is the following.

Click applications. Click office - lotus notes 8.5.

Prompts for my password displays the loading message and then the small signin box disappears and nothing.

I see the following runnig–>

user@butu1:~$ ps -ef|grep lotus

user 15875 1 0 11:44 ? 00:00:03 /opt/ibm/lotus/notes/framework/…/notes /authenticate

user 15876 15875 0 11:44 ? 00:00:00 nsdexec 15875 /home/user/lotus/notes/data

user 16094 9016 0 11:56 pts/1 00:00:00 grep lotus

This is worse than when I initially installed it a few days ago during which I was able to use the client to read and send messages. Even back then it seemed a bit unstable. Now it is totally useless. I did do a reinstall after an ubuntu update which seemed to have broken something badly that I can’t seem to fix.

Questions:

  1. How to properly remove and reinstall

  2. How to start client from the command line

  3. How to debug. Is there a parameter maybe on the command line script

  4. Where to look for errors. I can’t find any log to provide clues.

  5. are there software updates to the client listed below

ibm_lotus_notes-8.5.i586.deb

Linux butu1 2.6.28-15-generic #49-Ubuntu SMP Tue Aug 18 18:40:08 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux

Thanks for any help/suggestions

-Jim

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Subject: Running on a supported version of Ubuntu?

Only 8.04 LST is supported officially AFAIK. It should work fine on it and I would even say it is running faster than on Windows.If you are testing it on a newer Ubuntu you WILL have problems. Too many things hard-coded I guess…

Not that it is not doable, just more difficult. And since those debs are basically converted from RPMs with alien they do not contain dependency info, so you might be actually missing a dependency or two.

Try running it from a terminal and look for error messages.

Hope this helps.

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Subject: ubuntu 8.5 client

my original post asked how to run from terminal.do you know how?

thx

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Subject: Running from terminal

Well, just look at Notes launcher properties or check /usr/share/applications/Lotus\ Notes\ 8.5.desktop

The command should read

/opt/ibm/lotus/notes/framework/…/notes

But I am having no problems running it on 8.04, though 9.04 will certainly be more difficult.

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Subject: 8.5 on Ubuntu

I run 8.5 on Ubuntu 9.04 and have had very minor problems. Much faster than Windows. Some font issues but there are sources on net that instruct what font packages to load. I’m not a power user, but I’ve had no problems at all with 8.5/9.04