[OmniOS-discuss] running X application over ssh can't find libraries

[Geoff Nordli]

On 13-08-28 01:43 AM, Jim Klimov wrote:
> On 2013-08-28 08:30, Paul B. Henson wrote:
>> On Aug 27, 2013, at 10:44 PM, Geoff Nordli <geoffn at gnaa.net> wrote:
>>
>>> /usr/bin/VirtualBox
>>> VirtualBox: supR3HardenedMainGetTrustedMain: 
>>> dlopen("/opt/VirtualBox/amd64/VirtualBox.so",) failed: ld.so.1: 
>>> VirtualBox: fatal: libXinerama.so.1: open failed: No such file or 
>>> directory
>> [...]
>>> The files are there:
>> [...]
>>> -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root       14848 Oct  6  2012 
>>> libXinerama.so.1.0.0
>>
>> I'm guessing this is a 32 bit library and hence unusable by the 64 
>> bit virtualbox binary?
>>
>> What does "file libXinerama.so.1.0.0" have to say?
>
> That would find the file, but complain about ELFCLASS32 at a later step
> (i.e. binary not applicable to dynamically link with current code).
> If a "amd64/libXinerama.so..." (or some other directory euphemism like
> "64/libX...") exists under the same libdir, it should be picked up
> automatically.
>
> If the library is not available, I wonder if the 32-bit GUI works and
> if it would be able to launch 64-bit processes (helpers and headless
> VMs) that don't need GUI? For console access you could then use RDP
> or VNC (if available in your VirtualBox build). Actually, since the
> disconnection of ssh (X-server) would be fatal to its GUI client (VM),
> I'd be in favour of either using headless VMs (see my vboxsvc project
> on sourceforge, to run VMs as SMF instances and more) or making some
> VNC desktop on the VM host and using it to manage the VMs. It does not
> have to be a heavy GNOME environment, I use a bare-bone twm just fine.
> Anything that can render X11 and has a window-manager to move and
> overlap the windows ;)
>
> This seems more like a problem of needing a fixed LD_LIBRARY_PATH (I see
> that you seem to have a correct one, though) in the invokation, passed
> from ssh by command-line, or the remote host's sshd config, or via the
> user's .profile, or by some system-wide setting (/etc/default/login ?
> or crle etc.) Though the latter approach has recently become a matter
> of near-religious flame wars, especially to be portable between distros
> and packages with non-standard paths - like /opt/pkg/lib - and perhaps
> there are better solutions... that is, unless they involve full-blown
> recompilation of third-party programs and libraries ;)
>

Thanks Jim.

I think I will abandon the quest to run VirtualBox gui over ssh.  I only 
use the GUI to configure the VM and get it running.   Once it is ready 
to go, then I switch to vboxsvc, which is awesome :), and use rdp to 
view the VMs.

I have some scripts that I will stick to.

Geoff