Note: This version of the VDT (1.9.1) 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 2.0.0.
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 and Debian 4 x86_64. This prevents the build from completing, and therefore PyGlobus doesn't work on these platforms. However, the VDT installation will completely (apparently) successfully
SGE works correctly with both pre-web services GRAM and web-services GRAM. Howeer, web-services GRAM will not work correctly if the SGE accounting file is rotated. This will be fixed in an upcoming update.
Note that Pre-web services GRAM support (aka GRAM 2) for SGE has been in the VDT for a while and continues to work correctly.
Usage statistic reporting doesn't work correctly, but can cause random crashes due to memory corruption. We've disabled statistic reporting. A bug fix is in the works, and we expect to turn usage statistic reporting back on in future releases.
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.