I thought I'd forward (with Tone's consent) an exchange that happened off list. We've been having problems in Bristol with Zope 2.1.6 dying under Solaris 7. (Sorry - no hard info about this, no obvious pattern.) The consensus seems to be that things appear to better with Zope 2.2 - does anyone else's experience support this? Paul --- Begin Forwarded Message --- Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 09:49:22 +0100 From: Tony McDonald <tony.mcdonald@ncl.ac.uk> Subject: Re: Stability probs on Solaris? (Was: [Zope] Trouble installing on Solaris (fwd)) Sender: Tony McDonald <tony.mcdonald@ncl.ac.uk> To: Paul Browning <paul.browning@bristol.ac.uk>, Paul.Smith@bristol.ac.uk Reply-To: Tony McDonald <tony.mcdonald@ncl.ac.uk> Message-ID: <v04220884b5ac3db62b7b@[128.240.198.13]> At 7:07 am +0100 1/8/00, Paul Browning wrote:

I know Tony McDonald in Newcastle has complained about how slow Zope is on a Sun Enterprise box up there (running 3 times as slow as on his desktop iMac as I recall ...) but I don't recall him reporting stability problems. I've copied this to Tone.

It's weird - the python 'pystones' benchmark runs half as fast as my iMac, but Reportlab (an *excellent* PDF library in Python) runs like lightning on our Sun iron. Our servers are all pretty stable here now. We've upgraded a box to Solaris 8 and I've compiled (from src) Zope 2.2.0 on it and it's working fine. In fact, I'm using the INSTANCE_HOME, PYTHON_HOME environment variables to point to *one* installation of 2.2.0 and have 5-6 servers running from that. Very nice.

After playing with Zope on NT for a while, I decided it was time to try it on Solaris. I have duly downloaded the file, followed the installation instructions for the precompiled binary version, but when I run ./install I get get the following error:

--------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- Compiling python modules ld.so.1: /work3/cultivate-eu/Zope-2.1.6-solaris-2.6-sparc/bin/python: fatal: relocation error: file /work3/cultivate-eu/Zope-2.1.6-solaris-2.6-sparc/bin/python: symbol fseeko: referenced symbol not found Killed

What I do is % python w_pcgi.py and % python wo_pcgi.py and this does seem to work - of course, this implies a working Pyton setup from src. I've never tried the ./install script (in fact, I don't think I've ever seen it!) I do know that the LD_LIBRARY_PATH env variable is critical if you're using shared libraries (eg MySQL, LDAP etc). My variable is % printenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH /usr/local/lib/:/usr/lib:/usr/local/ssl/lib:/usr/local/lib/mysql (note the mysql library path too...) HTH tone ------ Dr Tony McDonald, FMCC, Networked Learning Environments Project http://nle.ncl.ac.uk/ The Medical School, Newcastle University Tel: +44 191 222 5888 Fingerprint: 3450 876D FA41 B926 D3DD F8C3 F2D0 C3B9 8B38 18A2 --- End Forwarded Message --- -- The Library, Tyndall Avenue, Univ. of Bristol, Bristol, BS8 1TJ, UK E-mail: paul.browning@bris.ac.uk URL: http://www.bris.ac.uk/