ColdFusion 7 :(

[leaded]

I want to preface this by saying I hate our developers for not using something I could build from source.

Okay, I'm having problems installed CFMX 7 on my 64-bit version of FC4. The installer ran fine, but it had a warning that it couldn't find the C++ compatibility libraries. I discovered that it searches for an older, 2.x version, while Fedora/RHEL ship with a 3.x version. When I try to start CFMX7, I get the following output:

[root@localhost bin]# ./coldfusion start
ln: error while loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
ps: error while loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Starting ColdFusion MX 7...
The ColdFusion MX 7 server is starting up and will be available shortly.
sleep: error while loading shared libraries: libm.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
ps: error while loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
There has been an error starting ColdFusion MX 7, please check the logs.

I hopped on Google, and found a Breeze demo of someone installing CFMX7, Apache, and some other goodies on RHEL4. I got really excited when he had the same C++ issue, but he was able to start it successfully later, so library errors.

So, I'm assuming this is a 64-bit distro issue. It can't find the libraries, which could happen, because there's 32 and 64-bit libs. So I searched for my missing libs...

[root@localhost bin]# find / -name libc.so.6
/lib64/tls/libc.so.6
/lib64/libc.so.6
/lib/tls/libc.so.6
/lib/i686/libc.so.6
/lib/libc.so.6
[root@localhost bin]# find / -name libm.so.6
/lib64/tls/libm.so.6
/lib64/libm.so.6
/lib/tls/libm.so.6
/lib/i686/libm.so.6
/lib/libm.so.6

I made soft links for those files in the /usr/lib[64] folders as seen below...

/usr/lib64/tls/libc.so.6
/usr/lib64/libc.so.6
/usr/lib/tls/libc.so.6
/usr/lib/libc.so.6
---
/usr/lib64/tls/libm.so.6
/usr/lib64/libm.so.6
/usr/lib/tls/libm.so.6
/usr/lib/libm.so.6

I ran the ./coldfusion start and I got the same errors. I remembered the LD_LIBRARY_PATH sometimes being called by programs, so I set it...

[root@localhost bin]# echo $LD_LIBRARY_PATH

[root@localhost bin]# export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/lib:/lib64:/usr/lib:/usr/lib64
[root@localhost bin]# ./coldfusion start
ln: error while loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
ps: error while loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Starting ColdFusion MX 7...
The ColdFusion MX 7 server is starting up and will be available shortly.
sleep: error while loading shared libraries: libm.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
ps: error while loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
There has been an error starting ColdFusion MX 7, please check the logs.

But, as you can see, the same result.

Has anyone been able to get this working on a 64-bit system? Maybe someone who hasn't can try and give me some pointers? Please!!! I stubbornly refuse to install a 32-bit OS on this machine, because stupid CFMX is the only app that won't run on it. Maybe if I could build it from source Thanks for all the help, in advance.

EDIT: I checked the logs like it says, and each time I failed to start the app it printed the line...
su: error while loading shared libraries: libcrypt.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Just like I did with the previous files, I soft-linked /lib/libcrypt.so.1 to /usr/lib and the /lib64 version to /usr/lib64. Still, no dice

[Jman]

Instead of linking your libc libraries all over the place, I recommend using "yum provides" to search for packages actually have that and then installing them.

Or trying 32 bit.

[leaded]

So, you mean to try and install some other application that uses the same libraries to see if the libraries work? I don't understand. Thanks for writing back, though.

[mach_zero]

I know nothing about ColdFusion, but it sounds as though you may be missing backwards compatibility libraries (they may be installed by default in RHEL, but not in Fedora). This is a quote from a web page about CF MX 7 and FC3, but it may still apply:

"Before you attempt the install you will probably need to install the compat-libstdc++-8-3.3.4.2.i386.rpm otherwise you will run into problems with C+ related systems later - Verity serach, report generator etc."

There are other apps which exhibit this behavior as well (RealPlayer, for one) because they were compiled using older versions of gcc. Tell yum to install compat-libstdc++-33 and compat-libstdc++-296 and see if that doesn't help.

[leaded]

I just tried all of these compat libraries and thelike, but nothing seems to work. It looks like I can move these applications onto a Pentium 4, so I'll use this machine for something non-ColdFusion. Thanks for the help, though.

[Boodlooder]

This pretty much kills it from what I can tell.

http://www.macromedia.com/cfusion/we...&enterthread=y

Adobe/Macromedia says 'poot on FC5'.

[n03l]

Not sure if you still need the info, but Coldfusion MX7 does NOT work on a 64bit OS.