missing libcherokee-base.so.0 and SEGFAULT

[Pierre GAUTHIER]

Binary package hint: cherokee

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What steps will reproduce the problem?

1. compile cherokee (2009-11-19) on Ubuntu 8.10
2. run cherokee
3. missing libcherokee-base.so.0 and SEGFAULT
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What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

Instead of running cherokee crashes.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?

cherokee (2009-11-19) on Ubuntu 8.10

Please provide any additional information below.

libcherokee-base.so.0 is shown by ls so it has been compiled.
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Using strace (see the dump attached) allowed me to understand what the problem is.

First, to install the deb packages, use:

sudo dpkg -i *.deb

(I actually compiled the code but not everybody may choose this path).

Ubuntu 8.1 does not list the necessary entries in /etc/ld.so.conf, so, to cover
Cherokee's needs and future needs (this is a test machine) I added:

   /lib32
   /usr/lib32
   /usr/X11R6/lib32
   /usr/local/lib
   /usr/local/lib/cherokee

After you add those lines before the 'include' entry, reload the configuration:

sudo ldconfig -X

Because of these missing entries, Cherokee was not finding its shared libraries (not an excuse for the SEGFAULT).

Then, Cherokee's errors "Something just happened while opening a plug-in file" did not really help, nor the incorrect "Couldn't read the config file: /usr/local/etc/cherokee/cherokee.conf" (strace demonstrates that the config file was properly loaded, twice).

I have been told by Cherokee's team that "compiling tells to add that lib to ld.so.conf"

Cherokee's compilation lasts a few minutes and its output is tenths of thousands lines long so I am not sure that everyone can afford to read it all to find the one useful line.

As 'make install' has usually the required privileges, that's probably a good place to save the hurdle of doing it manually for every single new Cherokee user.

I also have been told that:
"As with any package you need to fill the package dependencies to work"

Sure, but Apache, Rock, Lighttpd, Nginx, Klone, and many others, are able:

1) to find the files that *they* have generated and installed;

2) to avoid *a crash* (SEGFAULT) if one of those files is missing.

Just my one-cent contribution, in case an unfortunate Ubuntu user is facing the same "non-issue" (but real crash).