GroupWise client on openSUSE 10.3

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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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  • Anyone know if GW works ok with openSUSE 11?
  • 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
  • Cool! Just adding that EXPORT line fixed the issue.
    WHERE/ HOW did you get that solution?!
  • Works also fine for me. The export line was just enough. Thanks
  • 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
  • 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.
  • Off-topic but somewhat releated, has anyone gotten Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) working with any public release of the Mac Groupwise client?
  • 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!
  • 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?
  • 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.
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