Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 218679
No 32-bit package of nss_ldap breaks vmware, acroread, 32-bit gtk apps
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:11:51 EST
Description of problem: On a machine that's using LDAP as a passwd source (using nss_ldap), only the 64-bit version of nss_ldap is available, but no 32-bit version. This means any 32-bit applications that try to do a getpwuid_r() call on the LDAP user will always not find the username. Thus vmware prints an error saying it cannot find a place to write temporary log files (vmware is 64-bit aware but uses 32-bit glib and gtk). Acroread just spits out a GTK error about not finding a username for the current uid. If I copy lib/libnss_ldap* from a 32-bit FC6 machine everything works. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 253-1 How reproducible: Just install FC6 on a 64-bit machine, configure it to use LDAP for users and passwords, and try to run vmware as an ldap user. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Set up LDAP in authconfig-tui 2. log in as an ldap user 3. try running vmware, or acroread (patched to fix the expr problem) Actual results: Vmware complains about no temporary location for log files, acroread complains that user id #### doesn't exist Expected results: Things should load and work fine. Additional info:
Eclipse also will not run either, saying it can't find the worksapce in path /?/workspace (? because it cannot find the user's home directory or name)
A 64-bit Fedora Core tree should include both 32- and 64-bit versions of the nss_ldap package. Which architecture is your system (output of "arch")?
# arch x86_64 # rpm -qa | grep nss_ldap nss_ldap-253-1 # yum install nss_ldap.i386 Loading "installonlyn" plugin Setting up Install Process Setting up repositories Reading repository metadata in from local files Parsing package install arguments No Match for argument: nss_ldap.i386 Nothing to do I must be doing something wrong I guess. I have not modified the yum.repos.d files, except to add livna and freshrpms As a sanity check: # rpm -qi glibc Name : glibc Relocations: (not relocatable) Version : 2.5 Vendor: Red Hat, Inc. Release : 3 Build Date: Sun 08 Oct 2006 09:09:32 AM MDT Install Date: Wed 29 Nov 2006 09:01:04 AM MST Build Host: hs20-bc1-5.build.redhat.com Group : System Environment/Libraries Source RPM: glibc-2.5-3.src.rpm Size : 11534911 License: LGPL Signature : DSA/SHA1, Mon 09 Oct 2006 10:08:39 PM MDT, Key ID b44269d04f2a6fd2 Packager : Red Hat, Inc. <http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla> Summary : The GNU libc libraries. Description : The glibc package contains standard libraries which are used by multiple programs on the system. In order to save disk space and memory, as well as to make upgrading easier, common system code is kept in one place and shared between programs. This particular package contains the most important sets of shared libraries: the standard C library and the standard math library. Without these two libraries, a Linux system will not function. Name : glibc Relocations: (not relocatable) Version : 2.5 Vendor: Red Hat, Inc. Release : 3 Build Date: Sun 08 Oct 2006 09:31:30 AM MDT Install Date: Wed 29 Nov 2006 09:01:07 AM MST Build Host: hs20-bc2-3.build.redhat.com Group : System Environment/Libraries Source RPM: glibc-2.5-3.src.rpm Size : 12512698 License: LGPL Signature : DSA/SHA1, Mon 09 Oct 2006 10:08:38 PM MDT, Key ID b44269d04f2a6fd2 Packager : Red Hat, Inc. <http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla> Summary : The GNU libc libraries. Description : The glibc package contains standard libraries which are used by multiple programs on the system. In order to save disk space and memory, as well as to make upgrading easier, common system code is kept in one place and shared between programs. This particular package contains the most important sets of shared libraries: the standard C library and the standard math library. Without these two libraries, a Linux system will not function. I do have both 64-bit and 32-bit versions of libraries like glibc, etc.
The distribution scripts need to include nss modules as well as pam modules, and the update system needs modified accordingly.
nss_db and nss_ldap have been added to the biarch list for Fedora updates (they existed for FC4/5, but seemed to have vanished for FC6).
*** Bug 219040 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
We'll still need an update of nss stuff to pick up the multiarch packages. Reassigning to nalin.
Hmm, should have closed this along with #219040. Closing now.