Re: chroot of iPlanet 6.0 and Siebel....

From: Warren Belfer (belfer_at_gullwing.eng.sun.com)
Date: 05/31/05 

Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 09:38:35 -0700 (PDT)
To: jonathan.katz@gmail.com, littejo@earlham.edu

>Lo, Jonathan Katz and the teakettle whistled in unison:
>
>> All,
>>
>> I'm attempting to establish a chrooted environment for an iPlanet
>> 6.0SP9 webserver with Siebel web extensions installed for our
>> enterprise on Solaris 9. I've been able to operate the SSL-based
>> webserver in the chrooted environment with no major problems. However,
>> when I enable the Siebel web extensions the webserver fails to start;
>> I'm not even prompted for the SSL password upon start, the webserver
>> coredumps. Based on error messages it looks like I'm missing
>> libraries, but after examining LD_LIBRARY_PATH and judicious use of
>> ldd I'm coming up short...
>[snip]
>
>I'm afraid I can't help with the specifics of this one, but one
>approach I've tried with some success when I've had really peculiar
>run time problems is using truss to find out what system calls the
>errant program is making and what it's getting out of them. That
>sometimes uncovers file open failures that I'd never find otherwise or
>similar odd problems.

You might want to try 'pldd' on a system where the application is
running correctly (not in a chroot) 'pldd' will give you not only
the directly required libraries, like 'ldd' will, but it also lists
any librarires which those libraries call. That should give you all
of the dependencies (library-wise at least)

HTH,

Warren