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 > _______________________________________________ > fossology mailing list > fossology@fossology.org > http://fossology.org/mailman/listinfo/fossology _______________________________________________ fossology mailing list fossology@fossology.org http://fossology.org/mailman/listinfo/fossology
