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GroupWise client on openSUSE 10.3

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8 October 2007 - 2:25pm
Submitted by: aevans

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I need to precede this post with a bunch of disclaimers. This is not a supported configuration, it has not been tested by either GroupWise or SuSE engineering and I personally have not played with it enough to see if anything else is broken, however, it is possible to get the GroupWise client running on openSUSE 10.3.

When trying to install the RPM I got a number of libXm.so.3 dependency errors, so I installed:

openmotif-libs-32bit
openmotif-libs
openmotif22-libs-32bit
openmotif22-libs
openmotif

Probably overkill, but it installed after adding all of those. Oh, and I had first added a bunch of 'community repositories' which I think these were installing from.  Once installed the GroupWise client still does not launch.

The last thing that you need to do is to modify /opt/novell/groupwise/client/bin/groupwise.   On the line after the first export enter:

 export LIBXCB_ALLOW_SLOPPY_LOCK=1

The whole file now reads:

#!/bin/bash
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/novell/groupwise/client/lib:/opt/novell/groupwise/client/jre/lib/i386
export LIBXCB_ALLOW_SLOPPY_LOCK=1
/opt/novell/groupwise/client/bin/groupwise-bin "$@"

Save that file and launch the client again - it should now work.




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Imagen de Rick Bousquet

I only had to add the export

Submitted by Rick Bousquet (no verificado) on 9 October 2007 - 1:15pm.

I only had to add the export line to mine. That may have been because I already added the repositories but I did not see anything else get installed
when I did the install. Seems to be working fine.

Imagen de Alex Evans

That's entirely possible.

Submitted by Alex Evans (no verificado) on 9 October 2007 - 3:08pm.

That's entirely possible. For a start I was installing the GroupWise Bonsai client, which may have different dependencies. I also did a pretty much Next...Next...Next install of openSUSE so you have have installed something else that autoadded the dependencies.

Imagen de Mike Rigamer

Worked for me just with the

Submitted by Mike Rigamer (no verificado) on 12 October 2007 - 6:41am.

Worked for me just with the edit as well, but as you stated above it could be because i've installed a bunch of other software on here. Seems to work like a champ!

Imagen de peter

If you have compiz fusion

Submitted by peter (no verificado) on 13 October 2007 - 12:09am.

If you have compiz fusion active then groupwise starts but displays only a grey screen. To fix it, change the groupwise startup script to "/opt/novell/groupwise/client/bin/groupwise.sh -jvm=-Dawt.toolkit=sun.awt.motif.MToolkit"

Imagen de Olivier

Worked for me just with the

Submitted by Olivier (no verificado) on 14 October 2007 - 2:09am.

Worked for me just with the edit too.
I had no openmotif rpm installed ...

Great cool solution.

Imagen de Alex Evans

Then it must be because I

Submitted by Alex Evans (no verificado) on 15 October 2007 - 8:37am.

Then it must be because I was installing the GroupWise Bonsai client. So, when you get your hands on that one you will know what you have to do :)

Imagen de Mike

Where can I get the

Submitted by Mike (no verificado) on 19 October 2007 - 6:33am.

Where can I get the Groupwise Bonsai client?

Imagen de Alex Evans

You can't yet as it has not

Submitted by Alex Evans (no verificado) on 22 October 2007 - 9:36am.

You can't yet as it has not been released. We are targeting first half of '08

Imagen de jrfude

I have groupwise running on

Submitted by jrfude (no verificado) on 22 October 2007 - 12:26pm.

I have groupwise running on 10.2 with only the edit, no worries. It seems sluggish if I haven't used it for a while, but that is likely because of how I have my swappiness set.

Imagen de Karl Katzke

I'm running OpenSUSE 10.3

Submitted by Karl Katzke (no verificado) on 22 October 2007 - 1:30pm.

I'm running OpenSUSE 10.3 x86_64 ... I seem to have developed an additional problem in that the binary that my workplace has is 32 bit. I can get the Groupwise initial menu, it creates the .Novell directory in my home directory, but at that point it hangs at "connecting . . . . " and doesn't give me the prompt to log in or give it connection settings for the groupwise servers. My coworker's is working on a previous build of SLED.

Any ideas?

Imagen de Mark Currie

Alex, You say that the

Submitted by Mark Currie (no verificado) on 24 October 2007 - 5:11am.

Alex, You say that the release date of Bonsai has been pushed from November 07, to some time in the first 6 mths of 2008.....That's really bad news.....11 Schools that I know of in Melbourne, AU are already dumping GW over Xmas and going to the Dark Side... A six month delay in shipping will only fuel others to look elsewhere as well.... despite any argument I make..... Please stick a BMW M3 engine under desk and attempt to get the release out ASAP!

Imagen de Eric

Off-topic but somewhat

Submitted by Eric (no verificado) on 24 October 2007 - 10:28am.

Off-topic but somewhat releated, has anyone gotten Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) working with any public release of the Mac Groupwise client?

Imagen de Alex Evans

Its a fine line that we have

Submitted by Alex Evans (no verificado) on 26 October 2007 - 1:51pm.

Its a fine line that we have to walk. We have made the decision to be quality focused instead of date focused - the right decision in my opinion. Releasing a product that is not of the very best quality that we can make it is more damaging that slipping dates.

Imagen de Alex Evans

Run

Submitted by Alex Evans (no verificado) on 26 October 2007 - 1:53pm.

Run /opt/novell/groupwise/client/bin/groupwise from a terminal window and see what errors you get. Then look for a TID or in the forums to see if it's a known issue

Imagen de KLaus Hild

Works also fine for me. The

Submitted by KLaus Hild (no verificado) on 5 November 2007 - 2:51am.

Works also fine for me. The export line was just enough. Thanks

Imagen de eoettinger

Cool! Just adding that

Submitted by eoettinger (no verificado) on 18 February 2008 - 1:54am.

Cool! Just adding that EXPORT line fixed the issue.
WHERE/ HOW did you get that solution?!

Imagen de David Frost

I found that the later

Submitted by David Frost (no verificado) on 6 March 2008 - 1:39am.

I found that the later GroupWise 7.0.2 and beyond clients with Compiz-Fusion worked with an /opt/novell/groupwise/client/bin/groupwise like this:

#!/bin/bash
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/novell/groupwise/client/jre/lib/i386:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}
export LIBXCB_ALLOW_SLOPPY_LOCK=1
/opt/novell/groupwise/client/bin/groupwise-bin "$@" -jvm=-Dawt.toolkit=sun.awt.motif.MToolkit

Dave

Imagen de Todd

Anyone know if GW works ok

Submitted by Todd (no verificado) on 8 June 2008 - 7:17pm.

Anyone know if GW works ok with openSUSE 11?

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