[8348] in testers
Re: debathena-precise-cluster issues
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Geoffrey Thomas)
Thu Jun 21 17:46:36 2012
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 14:46:32 -0700 (PDT)
From: Geoffrey Thomas <geofft@MIT.EDU>
To: Alex T Prengel <alexp@MIT.EDU>
cc: debathena@MIT.EDU, testers@MIT.EDU
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On Thu, 21 Jun 2012, Alex T Prengel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In testing the Alpha release of debathena-precise-cluster I ran across
> the following:
>
> A significant number of 32 bit applications have missing library
> dependencies due to ia32-libs not being installed. I'll report this and
> other missing packages in trac.
Looks like what we intended to catch in #931. We probably want to install
the moral equivalent of debathena-athena-libraries:i386. (Can you apt-get
install that? I _think_ you should be able to.)
> Various multimedia applications and chromium-browser generate errors
> like "shm_open() failed: permission denied". chromium-browser helpfully
> suggests running:
>
> chmod 1777 /dev/shm
>
> as root to fix this.
Oh, I bet we're not bind-mounting /run/shm properly.
> vlc is broken, probably due to the chroot (launching as "vlc -v" will
> print messages implicating this). A workaround is to set VLC_PLUGIN_PATH
> to /usr/lib/vlc/plugins.
>
> Alex
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Geoffrey Thomas
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