SRSS 3.1.1 on 64bit linux
Hi,
I have been trying to set up SRSS 3.1.1 on 64bit linux (debian, amd64).
With SRSS installed in a mixed mode setup with 64bit system but 32bit libraries available, I ended having problems with the 32bit pam modules included with srss.
With SRSS installed in a 32bit chroot environment I ended up gradually migrating desktop components (such as gdm) from native 64bit over to the 32bit in the chroot environment in order to get the SRSS/gdm integration working.
Does such a thing as "best practice" for installing the 32bit SRSS 3.1.1 on a 64bit linux system exists?
Is a linux 64bit SRSS scheduled?
BR,
Michael A
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> With SRSS installed in a mixed mode setup with 64bit system but 32bit
> libraries available, I ended having problems with the 32bit pam modules
> included with srss.
The build of GDM supplied with SRSS is a 32-bit executable and therefore requires 32-bit PAM modules. If you're trying to use the distro's native 64-bit GDM then obviously those modules won't work.
(The SRSS GDM daemon is 32-bit but SRSS delivers 32- and 64-bit GDM greeter executables and runs the appropriate one automatically. That gets around some missing 32-bit Gnome libraries on the supported 64-bit platforms.)
> Is a linux 64bit SRSS scheduled?
SRSS 3.1.1 and SRSS 4.0 (currently in beta) are supported on 32-bit and 64-bit RHAS4 and SLES9. SRSS is not supported on any other distros. If you want to try to install and run SRSS on other distros that's fine, but Sun won't provide assistance or support.
You might try asking on the sunray-users mailing list at <http://www.filibeto.org/sun/sunray-users/>. Some people on that list run SRSS on unsupported distros.
