Correct Lotus Notes behavior on Ubuntu 9.10
After upgrading my desktop to Karmic Koala I started having some problem with my Notes 8.5.1 installation with window not displaying contents.
Doing a brief Google search I found this thread about a change made in libgtk that breaks Lotus Notes.
The solution is in comment #13: just follow the simple instructions and Lotus Notes will be working again.
Update – Nov, 4th 2009
As pointed out by jklocke, a fresh Lotus Notes installation on Ubuntu 9.10 doesn’t work: Notes won’t start at all.
The solution he found is very simple and quick: Notes cannot find the packages libgnomeprint2.2-0 and libgnomeprintui2.2-0.
To resolve the problem run this command to install missing libraries:
sudo apt-get install libgnomeprint2.2-0 libgnomeprintui2.2-0
Just wondering if you installed notes on a fresh install of 9.10…… I just redid my system and tried to install notes and i get a big nothing. It will launch and I can accept the license agreement but after that the program stalls and does nothing. I had it running fine on a beta upgrade to 9.10 so I am at a loss right now.
No, I updated my 9.04 installation so I have not tried a fresh install yet.
I’m planning to do a fresh install today and maybe I’ll find something.
Just thought I would share what I found out about this issue. After Digging I found a couple packages were not included in 9.10 and needed to be installed
Here is the link to my post on the ubuntu forums.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1306492
Thanks a lot!! You save my life
Thank you jklocke for the solution! I’ve updated the post.
I can confirm that a clean 9.10 install with Lotus Notes 8.5 has the same issues, and the 4 files added to the /opt/ibm/lotus/notes/ directory fixes the problem – BUT you must ensure that the permissions on those four files is set correctly. Compare the permissions to another file in the directory. A simple method for users who are unfamiliar with setting permissions via terminal commands: > gksudo nautilus – invokes nautilus as Root. Right-click > Properties for the files in question. You have a nice graphical interface within which to work and set the permissions.
I compared the permissions to libemulator.so and set them accordingly. I hope this comment helps.
Files are linked against comment #13 of the bug report: https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gtk+2.0/+bug/398250/comments/13
You are right about file permissions. I’ve checked the /opt/ibm/lotus/notes directory on my PC and the new files had different owner, group and permissions.
Thanks,that fix worked, I can now see my emails and workspace. When ever I shutdown the notes client, it syncs my db’s as I’m a roaming user. When I restart the client, my notes clients user data is missing several files such as my mailfile, my id file, etc. I get around this by deleting my lotus data directory and copying over an older copy of it. I still have to run the notes “International Program License Agreement” each start. Is anyone else having this problem? If not are you a roaming user?
My problem ended up being the lotus roaming user settings on the domino server as I have also experienced the same problem on windows systems with my profile & other roaming users. We had Lotus roaming set to clean-up periodically for some and on shutdown for others. Disabling the roaming cleanup seems to have fixed my prob.
J’ve another problem with Notes 8.5.1 on Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala. I can’t see state of checkboxes in preferences
All looks like unchecked. Any ideas?
I’ve never had this problem… Are you using a fresh install?
I’d try moving the notes.ini file and let Notes create a new configuration.
Thanks for the help. I could get my notes client started using this thread. However, when I shutdown the client – it does not do it cleanly. I have to kill notes process each time. Any one else has seen this issue ?
I have the same problem as PORBAS. I’m running Ubuntu Karmic 64bit..
I have the same problem as porbas and MrGuga. I’m running notes 8.5.1 and Ubuntu 9.10 (32 bits) – it’s fresh install
I cannot replicate the problem experienced by @porbas, @MrGuga and @Felipe so I really don’t know how to help you, sorry…