SRSS 4.1 (part of SRS4 10/08) on Debian/unstable

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Installation

Note 1: This version of SRSS includes 64bit versions of the PAM modules. So it should also run on a Linux installation with 64bit userland. I didn't test this, we use 64bit kernel + 32bit userland.

Note 2: All commands should be executed as root. Ubuntu users can use "sudo -i" to get a root prompt.

Note 3: For another recipe, see http://wwwcip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/~simigern/sunray-debian/4.1.html

Note 4: I only tested this on headless servers. There may be problems in this setup with Non-SunRay X sessions.


  • Install some necessary packages: 
apt-get install alien atftpd dhcp3-server gawk gdm iputils-ping ldap-utils libfreetype6 libgdbm3 \
libldap-2.4-2 libmotif3 module-assistant pdksh tk8.4 tomcat5.5 sun-java6-jre unzip  xfonts-base xkb-data
  • Unpack SRSS into some temporary directory: 
unzip srss_4.1_linux.zip
  • Convert the 32bit packages to deb packages: 
find . -name SUNW*i386.rpm | xargs alien -d
  • Install all resulting sunw*-packages: 
dpkg -i sunw*deb
  • Install Java for SRSS: 
ln -s /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre /etc/opt/SUNWut



cd /opt 
patch -p0 < /path/to/Patch-SUNWut41-1.txt
patch -p0 < /path/to/Patch-SUNWutref.txt
patch -p0 < /path/to/Patch-SUNWkio.txt

chmod 755 /etc/init.d/zsunray-init && update-rc.d zsunray-init defaults 99 01
  • If you have no /etc/lsb-release file generate it with 
echo "DISTRIB_ID=Debian" > /etc/lsb-release


  • Some more preparations: 
mkdir -p /var/dt
rm -f /etc/opt/SUNWut/gmSignature
touch /etc/opt/SUNWut/gmSignature
umask 022 /etc/opt/SUNWut/gmSignature
mkdir -p /var/lib/xkb
ln -s /var/lib/xkb /opt/SUNWut/lib/xkb/compiled
ln -s /usr/bin/xkbcomp /opt/SUNWut/lib/xkb/xkbcomp
cd /usr/share/X11/ 
mv xkb xkb.bak
ln -s /opt/SUNWut/lib/xkb  . 
ln -s /etc/gdm/gdm.conf /etc/gdm/custom.conf
mkdir -p /etc/sysconfig
echo -e "DHCPD_CONF_INCLUDE_FILES\nDHCPD_INTERFACE" >/etc/sysconfig/dhcpd


  • Create some library symlinks, patch pam configuration etc. (Ignore warnings about missing 64bit libraries.) 
/etc/init.d/utsyscfg start
sed -i -e 's/\$PLATFORM/i686/'  /etc/opt/SUNWut/xinitrc.d/0100.SUNWut
sed -i -e 's/\$PLATFORM/i686/'  /etc/pam.d/gdm
  • Edit /etc/pam.d/gdm. The SunRay entries should go first, but the utsyscfg script puts them after the @include ... statements.

Correct this.


  • The utsyscfg script should have added the lines 
VTAllocation=false
DynamicXServers=true
Greeter=/usr/lib/gdm/gdmgreeter
RebootCommand=
HaltCommand=
XKeepsCrashing=/etc/opt/SUNWut/gdm/XKeepsCrashing.sunray

to the [daemon] section of /etc/gdm/custom.conf. In any case, here Media:Gdm41.txt is my working version.

  • If you have not already configured the DHCP-server on your machine for other clients, you should empty the current config, so the Sun Ray Server Software adds its entries to a clean config and not the debian example one: 
mv /etc/dhcp3/dhcpd.conf /etc/dhcp3/dhcpd.conf.sample; touch /etc/dhcp3/dhcpd.conf

If you have already configured the dhcp-server, make a backup-copy of your old config, just in case. 


ln -s /opt/SUNWut/lib/libutdev.so.1 /usr/lib;  ldconfig
  • You can now configure the server with /opt/SUNWut/sbin/utconfig and /opt/SUNWut/sbin/utadm. See the SRSS documentation for possible options.

When you want to use the SRSS Web administration tool and utconfig asks for the "Apache Tomcat installation directory", answer /usr/share/tomcat5.5.

  • For dhcp to work, the utadm script should have added some lines to your /etc/dhcp3/dhcpd.conf and restarted the dhcp-server. Example: 
include "/etc/opt/SUNWut/net/dhcp/SunRay-options";
include "/etc/opt/SUNWut/net/dhcp/SunRay-interface-eth2";


  • Use Debian's module-assistant to prepare the system for kernel module builds: 
m-a -t prepare

cd /usr/src/SUNWut
patch -p1 < /path/to/Modulepatch41.txt
make -C /usr/src/SUNWut/utadem clean default install
make -C /usr/src/SUNWut/utio  clean default install
make -C /usr/src/SUNWut/utdisk clean default install
depmod -a

The patch above includes the one from http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.audio.pulseaudio.general/495

For very new (2.6.28) kernels, see Niki Waibels patches: SRSS-4.1-50_on_Linux-2.6.18_.._-2.6.28-rc6-git1

  • Remember: After (re-)starting GDM, you also need to restart the SunRay server software: 
/etc/init.d/zsunray-init stop; /etc/init.d/zsunray-init start
  • You are now ready to start the Sun Ray Server Software with: /etc/init.d/zsunray-init start


Some odds and ends

  • Debian man should find all the SRSS manpages: add the lines 
MANDATORY_MANPATH               /opt/SUNWut/share/man
MANDATORY_MANPATH               /opt/SUNWuttsc/share/man
MANDATORY_MANPATH               /opt/SUNWkio/share/man

to /etc/manpath.config.


  • Activate the XKB extension of the Sun Ray X server 
/opt/SUNWut/bin/utxconfig -a -k on


Audio support via Pulseaudio

I decided to give pulseaudio a try and it seems to work very good. I could drop the LD_PRELOAD hack. 

apt-get install pavucontrol pavumeter paman padevchooser paprefs pulseaudio \
pulseaudio-utils   pulseaudio-module-gconf  pulseaudio-module-hal \
pulseaudio-module-x11 libasound2-plugins gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio \
gnome-audio  pulseaudio-esound-compat  alsaplayer-alsa  \
libgstreamer-plugins-pulse0.10-0

(This will remove esound.)

The following is a slight variation of http://www.mail-archive.com/sunray-users@filibeto.org/msg09965.html :

Drop Media:Utpulse.pa.txt into /usr/local/bin/utpulse.pa and Media:95SUNW-pulseaudio.txt into /etc/X11/Xsession.d/95SUNW-pulseaudio.

More hints about pulseaudio are at [1].

Installation of the Sun Ray Connector for Windows 

unzip srwc_2.1_linux.zip
cd srwc_2.1
find . -name *.rpm | xargs alien -d
dpkg -i sunw*.deb
/opt/SUNWuttsc/sbin/uttscadm -c

When the last command asks for the location of libcrypto.so.0.9.7, answer /usr/lib/libcrypto.so.0.9.8

Installation of patch 139550-01 

unzip 139550-01.zip                                                             
cd 139550-01

Read the Readme file. It contains additional instructions. Download and apply the following patches: Media:Patch-patch.txt, Media:Patch-SUNWutref.txt 

/etc/init.d/zsunray-init stop                                                              
find . -name SUNW*.rpm| xargs alien -d                                                                                                                         
dpkg -i sunw*.deb                                                               
cd /opt                                                                         
patch -p0 < /path/to/Patch-SUNWutref.txt                                    
patch -p0 < /path/to/Patch-patch.txt                
/opt/SUNWut/sbin/utfwadm -A -a -n all
/etc/init.d/zsunray-init start

Meik 15:52, 29 December 2008 (EET)

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