Problem with starting gateway Gentoo Linux and Materials Studio 8 0 Problem solved

HP 2015-01-31

Dear Colleagues:

My Gentoo guy figured out the problem. The mod_perl.so library has a hard coded path to find libperl.so (/tmp/scitegic_install/perl-5.8.9/lib/5.8.9/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/CORE); if this path is not available, it ends up loading the system libperl.so, which causes the problems. Creating a symbolic link from /tmp/scitegic_install/perl-5.8.9/lib to /opt/Accelrys/MaterialsStudio/80/MaterialsStudio8.0/lib allows the gateway to load fine. Unfortunately, I'm not sure if this is a valid "permanent" solution.

Regards,

Bill Jarrett

Hi:

Our department recently tried to upgrade from Materials Studio 7.0 to 8.0. However, whenever I initiate the gateway the following error message is observed:

./gwstart

Gateway configuration...

Port 18888 appears to be available right now...

Starting gateway at:

http://talon:18888/

httpd: Syntax error on line 22 of /opt/Accelrys/MaterialsStudio/80/MaterialsStudio8.0/etc/Gateway/configurations/default/conf/httpd.conf: Cannot load /opt/Accelrys/MaterialsStudio/80/MaterialsStudio8.0/Apache/modules/mod_perl.so into server: /opt/Accelrys/MaterialsStudio/80/MaterialsStudio8.0/Apache/modules/mod_perl.so: undefined symbol: PL_vtbl_envelem

/opt/Accelrys/MaterialsStudio/80/MaterialsStudio8.0/etc/Gateway/root_default/httpd/bin/apachectl start: httpd could not be started

Gateway failed to start.

Our version of Linux is Gentoo Base System release 2.2. Although this is not officially supported, we never had this issue before with older versions, beginning with 5.5 up to 7.0. Biovia support has bascially punted because this flavor of Linux is not on the list.

Does anyone have an idea what may be the cause of this issue.

Thank you for your time and assistance,

Bill Jarrett