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Mar 11
2008

AMD 64 bit Troubles with Ubuntu 7.10

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Just a teaser of a post to see if anyone else has run into issues with Ubuntu 7.10 and 64 bit architectures. 

I built a machine from scratch on Sunday after months of piece by piece purchases and readily installed Ubuntu 7.10 64 bit server version.  4 gig of Corsair RAM, 250 GB hard disk, AMD X2 6400+ chip and a Gigabyte motherboard to support it all in a Rosewill case.  Connected up to my LAN and SSH'd into the box no problems.

My first issue came when I tried to install ColdFusion 8 with the same old CF7 approach for Ubuntu thanks to Dave Shuck's guide. The first step appeared to go well of installing zlib, but Apache 2.2 from source build failed at the zlib part.  It turns out that the mod_deflate piece of Apache that relies on zlib's gzip was struggling to install.  Eventually I worked around this by installing Apache with --disable-deflate option to work around it.  Ultimately Dave told me the installers are now better at working with the apt-get installed Apache 2 config.

Issue number 2 came when I went to install ColdFusion 8 and the installer chokes.  Not in the same replace the OS detection in the installer way - no. Somehow the java executable doesn't work and I found comments from an Adobe person suggesting a co-flounderer join the prerelease program for the CF8.1 update featuring a linux 64 bit installer.  Hmph.  So I joined but haven't received anything yet.

Lastly today I ran into trouble installing subversion on the box so I'm getting stuck all over the show.  If you have any experience with any of these on linux 64 bit hardware, please post some links in the comments for me to dive into.

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  1. You should ping Rob Munn - he's been doing alot lately with Ubuntu and 64 bit installations.

    http://blog.emergentpath.com/

    Posted By Cameron Childress : Posted At 3/12/08 8:40 AM
  2. I installed Apache2/CF8.1 (both 64- and 32-bit) on an EC2 Ubuntu 7.10 64- and 32-bit image without any problems. I was/am using the Enterprise trial in multi-server (JRun) mode, however.

    I don't know anything about the subversion part, but it sounds like the least of your issues!

    I used apt-get for Apache2. The only problem with the ColdFusion 8.1 pre-release installer is it does not create an auto-boot script, so I created one manually. I submitted this as a bug a little over a month ago and Adobe has already fixed it in the latest 8.1 pre-release.

    So how come you are building your own box anyway instead of using EC2? :)

    By the way, the link to Dave Shuck's guide no longer works. What do you mean anyway by the "same old CF7 approach"?

    I have had very good luck emailing directly with Jason Delmore at Adobe to help fix some cluster problems I ran into. I'm sure you've seen his blog http://www.cfinsider.com/

    Posted By David Smith : Posted At 3/18/08 3:13 PM
  3. +1 to David's comments. Use the O/S provided Apache (i.e. apt-get, synaptic et.c). The CF8 installer should run out of the box then. Just note that only CF8 enterprise (or developer) is 64bit native, and you can't upgrade from 32bit (7 or 8.0.0) to 64.

    Posted By Tom Chiverton : Posted At 5/9/08 3:24 AM
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