Hi Pete,
Welcome to FOSSology!
Thank you for the feedback on your attempts to install 1.2.0, 1.3 and 1.4.0
FOSSology.
I'm sorry you were advised to install 1.2.0. This is a very old version and
had known critical defects that were addressed in a 1.2.1 release in September
2010. Our most recent release, 1.4.1, is the current supported version of
FOSSology (http://fossology.org/download#supported_fossology_releases).
As pointed out in your email below, our previous license scanner (bsam),
included a license highlighting feature that is no longer available in nomos.
This past week, we received several emails from users expressing their desire
to see license highlighting reintroduced in a future release. (personally, I
liked it, too.) We will look to put it back on our roadmap after the 2.0
release.
I fixed the bad URL on our download page. Thanks for pointing it out.
As I recall, the pkgmetagetta initialization error during installation was
caused by a missing libextractor library. It looks like the old 1.2.0 version
has a dependency that is no longer available on your relatively newer o/s.
In all honesty, the best advice I can give you is to use our most recent 1.4.1
release for best results and optimal support.
Mary
Mary Laser
The FOSSology Project
http://fossology.org
-Original Message-
From: fossology-boun...@fossology.org [mailto:fossology-
boun...@fossology.org] On Behalf Of Peter Jalajas, GigaLock Backup
Services
Sent: Monday, August 01, 2011 7:55 PM
To: fossology@fossology.org
Subject: [FOSSology] 1.2.0 Inconsistency detected by ld.so; bad 1.4.0
svn url
Hi all,
New member and fossology user here. Version 1.2.0 was recommended to
me, with: 1.2 has both nomos and bsam searches. Occasionally, bsam
will find things that nomos doesn't and bsam highlights the license
match, whereas nomos does not. So on nomos-only matches, you have to
manually scan the file to find the match. I understand that 1.2 is
no longer supported; and I very much don't want to debate those
statements here.
I'm on Ubuntu Natty 11.04 64 bit on Amazon EC2. I tried installing
fossology 1.2 from both the Ubuntu repos (with sudo apt-get install
fossology) and svn, and it didn't quite work, throwing...
--
...
Initializing agents.
Inconsistency detected by ld.so: dl-close.c: 737: _dl_close: Assertion
`map-l_init_called' failed!
FATAL: '/usr/local/lib/fossology/agents/pkgmetagetta -i' failed to
initialize
*** Setting up scheduler ***
...
continued with no further errors
--
...during both the apt-get install and also the svn make install.
That led to missing license-agent errors later (see the Initializing
agents. log line above. Details of the license-agent error available
upon request).
I realize Ubuntu Natty 11.04 is not a supported platform.
I worked around by installing 1.3 via svn:
svn co
https://fossology.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/fossology/tags/1.3.0/ .
which has been working fine (I am scanning and reviewing results fine).
Separate issue: Additional tests on this machine with 1.4 and trunk
from similar urls worked fine. But please note that the url in this
command:
svn co
http://fossology.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/fossology/branches/fossolog
y-1.4.0/
from:
http://fossology.org/download
throws:
svn: Repository moved temporarily to
'/viewvc/fossology/branches/fossology-1.4.0/'; please relocate
Instead, the link that worked for me was:
svn co
https://fossology.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/fossology/tags/1.4.0/ .
(But I went back to 1.2 as recommended to me.)
So, any help working through the unsupported 1.2.0 ld.so error at the
top of this message would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Pete
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