Note: This version of the VDT (1.10.0) is no longer supported. Feel free to look through the documentation and install it, but we cannot guarantee support for it. The current stable release is 1.10.1.
We have seen many testing problems with a number of different software components on Suse 9 IA-64 and Debian 3.1 (Sarge).
The VOMS server (not client) and/or VOMS Admin currently fails on platforms that use OpenSSL 0.9.8. It exhibits itself as a failure when running voms-proxy-init, but it is a server-side issue. We recommend not installing VOMS as a server from this release on platforms with OpenSSL 0.9.8 (such as RedHat Enterprise Linux 5 and Debian 4) until it is resolved. VOMS bug report
Our PyGlobus build is not linking properly with SSL on SUSE 9 x86_64 This prevents the build from completing, and therefore PyGlobus doesn't work on these platforms. However, the VDT installation will complete (apparently) successfully.
The GRAM 4 SGE job manager now works correctly when the SGE accounting file is rotated. However, there is a small memory leak when it is rotated. This will be fixed soon.
Globus 4 is run in its own container, not within Tomcat. Because we already have several known services that run within Tomcat, Globus 4 is running on a non-standard port: 9443 instead of 8443. If you wish to change this, just edit the globus-ws init script. Also note that we have a workaround for this problem.
Globus does not support MDS 2 on 64-bit platforms (IA64 of x86-64). We used to provide the 32-bit version on x86-64, but due to the fact that we now link against the OS-provided OpenSSL which is 64-bit, we don't support MDS 2 on 64-bit platforms at all.
We have been unable to get working 32-bit installations on IA-64 machines (using VDT_PRETEND_32). On RedHat Enterprise Linux 3 (AS), running the 32-bit globus-rls-server binary consistently locked up the test machine, necessitating a hard reboot; if the RLS init script was installed in /etc/rc.d/init.d, rebooting caused the machine to lock up. On an IA-64 Scientific Linux 4 machine, all 32-bit binaries would refuse to run, preventing the installation from completing. Despite trying hard to fix these problems, they remain.
Our build of MySQL 5 doesn’t work on Debian 3.1. This prevents the Gratia service from working.
See the separate Mac OS X page for known problems on the platform.