For quite a while I run a Sun Ray environment at home. Recently I had to replace my SuSE 9.3 host with newer hardware. I installed openSUSE 10.2 on the new server. The only drawback is that the Sun Ray Server Software is not supported on openSUSE 10.2.
It took me a while to figure out how to install SRSS 4.0 on openSUSE 10.2. Thanks to Jörg who pointed me in the right direction I now have the Sun Ray Server Software 4 running on my system.
Here an overview of the installation process of the completely unsupported configuration:
- First, I got rid of the ksh package and installed pdksh.
rpm -e ksh-93r-41
rpm -i pdksh-5.2.14-822.i586.rpm
I downloaded the package from
http://lisa.gov.pt/ftp/suse/update/10.2/rpm/i586/, but it should be available on every openSUSE mirror.
- Then I enabled
LDAP and tftp in yast2:
ldap has to be enabled at System->System Services (Runlevel) and
tftp must be switched on at Network Services->Network Services (xinetd).
- Before I uninstalled the gdm packages and replaced it with the gdm packages which come with the SRSS 4.0 software, I saved the file /usr/share/xsessions/gnome.desktop for later.
cp /usr/share/xsessions/gnome.desktop /usr/share/xsessions/gnome.desktop.original
rpm -e gdm-2.16.1-36.4
rpm -i --force --nodeps GDM_2.4.4.7.2/Linux/Packages/gdm-2.4.4.7.2-10.i386.rpm
- Now I had to save /etc/X11/gdm/Xsession in order to use it later
cp /etc/X11/gdm/Xsession /etc/X11/gdm/Xsession.original
- and set a couple of links
ln -s /usr/share/X11 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11
ln -s /usr/lib/xserver /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xserver
ln -s /usr/bin/Xorg /usr/X11R6/bin/X
ln -s /usr/bin/xdpyinfo /usr/X11R6/bin/xdpyinfo
ln -s /usr/bin/xrdb /usr/X11R6/bin/xrdb
ln -s /usr/bin/xset /usr/X11R6/bin/xset
ln -s /usr/lib/liblber.so /usr/lib/liblber.so.199
ln -s /usr/lib/libldap.so /usr/lib/libldap.so.199
At this point I installed SRSS 4.0 with utinstall. It was
very important not to reboot the server until a couple more things were done.
- First I switched back to the newer gdm packages and replaced gnome.desktop and Xsession with their original files
rpm -e gdm-2.4.4.7.2-10
rpm -i gdm-2.16.1-36.4.i586.rpm
cp /usr/share/xsessions/gnome.desktop.original /usr/share/xsessions/gnome.desktop
cp /etc/X11/gdm/Xsession.original /etc/X11/gdm/Xsession
- installed Apache Tomcat:
tar xzf Supplemental/Apache_Tomcat/apache-tomcat-5.5.20.tar.gz
- set a couple of links for the GDM to work with SRSS
ln -s /opt/gnome/share/pixmaps /usr/share/pixmaps/gnome
ln -s /opt/gnome/bin/gdmdynamic /usr/bin/gdmdynamic
mv /opt/gnome/lib/gdm/gdmlogin /opt/gnome/lib/gdm/gdmlogin.original
ln -s /opt/gnome/lib/gdm/gdmgreeter /opt/gnome/lib/gdm/gdmlogin
- changed one line in files /etc/opt/SUNWut/xmgr/notify and /etc/opt/SUNWut/xmgr/reset-dpy
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< DMNAME=gdm-binary
---
> DMNAME=gdm
- copied file /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf.rpmsave to /etc/opt/gnome/gdm/gdm.conf
cp /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf.rpmsave /etc/opt/gnome/gdm/gdm.conf
- and adjusted /etc/opt/gnome/gdm/gdm.conf to work with SRSS 4.0
patch /etc/opt/gnome/gdm/gdm.conf < patch-gdm.conf
patch-gdm.conf:
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< Configurator=/usr/bin/gdmsetup --disable-sound --disable-crash-dialog
---
> Configurator=/opt/gnome/sbin/gdmsetup --disable-sound --disable-crash-dialog
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< Chooser=/usr/bin/gdmchooser
---
> Chooser=/opt/gnome/lib/gdm/gdmchooser
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< Greeter=/usr/bin/gdmgreeter
---
> Greeter=/opt/gnome/lib/gdm/gdmgreeter
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< RemoteGreeter=/usr/bin/gdmlogin
---
> RemoteGreeter=/opt/gnome/lib/gdm/gdmlogin
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< ServAuthDir=/var/gdm
---
> ServAuthDir=/var/lib/gdm
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> # SunRay access
> DynamicXServers=true
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< LocaleFile=/etc/X11/gdm/locale.alias
---
> LocaleFile=/usr/share/locale/locale.alias
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< GraphicalTheme=circles
< GraphicalThemeDir=/usr/share/gdm/themes/
---
> GraphicalTheme=GDM-SuSE
> GraphicalThemeDir=/opt/gnome/share/gdm/themes
- To make life easier I added
export PATH=$PATH:/opt/SUNWut/sbin:/opt/SUNWut/bin
to my ~/.bashrc file
- Eventually I only had to reboot and configure SRSS 4.0 with
# utconfig
# utadm -a eth1
# utadm -L on
# utrestart
I ran into some pitfalls on my way:
