# Beats for Solaris Platform **URL:** \ **Category:** Beats\ **Created:** [March 17, 2016, 3:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/beats-for-solaris-platform/44722 "2016-03-17T15:06:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![techrawther](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/41988e/32.png) [@techrawther](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/techrawther)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2016, 3:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/beats-for-solaris-platform/44722/1 "2016-03-17T15:06:49Z")
I am trying to install beats for Solaris and some ARM platforms so I am compiling from source code. As first step I tried to compile from source code for Solaris platform . Following are the steps I followed. 1. Installed Go (1.4) BootStrap - [https://golang.org/doc/install/source#go14](https://golang.org/doc/install/source#go14) 2. Compiled GO (1.6) and generated GO binaries - [https://golang.org/doc/install/source#introduction](https://golang.org/doc/install/source#introduction) 3. Compile Beats using GO 1.6 as suggested here - [https://github.com/elastic/beats/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#setting-up-your-dev-environment](https://github.com/elastic/beats/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#setting-up-your-dev-environment) Step 1 and 2 went through fine but while trying to compile beats I am getting following error **My Environment Variable** ``` GOPATH is /export/home/shamoham/go/go1_6/go/ GOROOT is /export/home/shamoham/go/go1_6/go PATH is /softwares/jdk/jdk1.8.0_45/:/opt/csw/bin:/opt/solarisstudio12.3/bin:/softwares/jdk/jdk1.8.0_45//bin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/export/home/shamoham/go/go1_6/go/bin ``` **STEP I used for compiling Beat (TopBeat)** ``` shamoham@shamohamsolaris:/export/home/shamoham/go/go1_6/go/src/github.com/elastic/beats/topbeat$ gmake go build # github.com/elastic/beats/vendor/github.com/elastic/gosigar ../vendor/github.com/elastic/gosigar/concrete_sigar.go:20: cpuUsage.Get undefined (type Cpu has no field or method Get) ../vendor/github.com/elastic/gosigar/concrete_sigar.go:30: cpuUsage.Get undefined (type Cpu has no field or method Get) ../vendor/github.com/elastic/gosigar/concrete_sigar.go:49: l.Get undefined (type LoadAverage has no field or method Get) ../vendor/github.com/elastic/gosigar/concrete_sigar.go:55: m.Get undefined (type Mem has no field or method Get) ../vendor/github.com/elastic/gosigar/concrete_sigar.go:61: s.Get undefined (type Swap has no field or method Get) ../vendor/github.com/elastic/gosigar/concrete_sigar.go:67: f.Get undefined (type FileSystemUsage has no field or method Get) ``` I am not sure what is wrong in here. I am new to GO. Do I need to Use any specific Glide command before installation for pulling in dependency? **Note** : I tried using make and i got an error so I used gmake above. Any help is appreciated ---
**Author:** ![andrewkroh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/andrewkroh/32/3784_2.png) [@andrewkroh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/andrewkroh)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2016, 3:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/beats-for-solaris-platform/44722/2 "2016-03-17T15:26:42Z")
Topbeat isn't supported on Solaris which is why it won't compile. This is a limitation of the [gosigar](https://github.com/elastic/gosigar) library. And FYI, we do have a [vagrant box](https://github.com/elastic/beats/blob/master/Vagrantfile#L19) for Solaris that we use for testing purposes. It has the Golang dev environment setup. We [test](http://build-eu-00.elastic.co/view/Beats/job/beats-solaris/111/) libbeat, Filebeat, and Packetbeat on Solaris. We boot the vagrant box then Jenkins runs this [script](https://gist.githubusercontent.com/andrewkroh/39f5182387410d4ee43b/raw/build.sh) inside the box to build and test. ---
**Author:** ![techrawther](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/41988e/32.png) [@techrawther](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/techrawther)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2016, 1:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/beats-for-solaris-platform/44722/3 "2016-03-22T13:04:04Z")
Hi @andrewkroh Thanks alot for your reply. As suggested I tried to compile packet beat on solaris which went through fine and while executing packet beat on Solaris I am getting following error. Does this has some thing to do with GO? Note: I thought of pulling the binary from elastic jenkins workspace, but looks like the build is in failed state. [http://build-eu-00.elastic.co/view/Beats/job/beats-solaris/ws/packetbeat/](http://build-eu-00.elastic.co/view/Beats/job/beats-solaris/ws/packetbeat/) ``` sudo ./packetbeat -d '*' -e 2016/03/22 12:30:42.266559 beat.go:221: DBG Initializing output plugins 2016/03/22 12:30:42.266669 geolite.go:24: INFO GeoIP disabled: No paths were set under shipper.geoip.paths 2016/03/22 12:30:42.266813 client.go:431: DBG ES Ping(url=http://somemachine.something.com:9200, timeout=1m30s) 2016/03/22 12:30:42.786221 client.go:440: DBG Ping status code: 200 2016/03/22 12:30:42.786341 outputs.go:89: INFO Activated elasticsearch as output plugin. 2016/03/22 12:30:42.786362 publish.go:235: DBG Create output worker 2016/03/22 12:30:42.786459 publish.go:277: DBG No output is defined to store the topology. The server fields might not be filled. 2016/03/22 12:30:42.786539 publish.go:291: INFO Publisher name: sthjprtsol51 2016/03/22 12:30:42.786591 async.go:70: INFO Flush Interval set to: 1s 2016/03/22 12:30:42.786618 async.go:71: INFO Max Bulk Size set to: 50 2016/03/22 12:30:42.786635 async.go:79: DBG create bulk processing worker (interval=1s, bulk size=50) 2016/03/22 12:30:42.786744 beat.go:238: INFO Init Beat: packetbeat; Version: 5.0.0-SNAPSHOT panic: reflect: call of reflect.Value.Type on zero Value goroutine 15 [running]: panic(0xbf2b20, 0xc821232ca0) /export/home/shamoh/go/go1_6/go/src/runtime/panic.go:464 +0x3ef reflect.Value.Type(0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0) /export/home/shamoh/go/go1_6/go/src/reflect/value.go:1671 +0x7b github.com/elastic/beats/vendor/github.com/urso/ucfg.pointerize(0xffff80ffbf3130a8, 0xcf4380, 0xffff80ffbf3130a8, 0xc0dc60, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0) /export/home/shamoh/go/go1_6/go/src/github.com/elastic/beats/vendor/github.com/urso/ucfg/reify.go:384 +0x143 github.com/elastic/beats/vendor/github.com/urso/ucfg.reifyValue(0xd216e0, 0x6, 0xd1afe8, 0x1, 0xffff80ffbf3130a8, 0xcf4380, 0xffff80ffbf346500, 0x16c75a8, 0x0, 0x0, ...) /export/home/shamoh/go/go1_6/go/src/github.com/elastic/beats/vendor/github.com/urso/ucfg/reify.go:176 +0x370 github.com/elastic/beats/vendor/github.com/urso/ucfg.reifyMap(0xd216e0, 0x6, 0xd1afe8, 0x1, 0xae7f20, 0xc821282228, 0x195, 0xc821236068, 0x0, 0x0) /export/home/shamoh/go/go1_6/go/src/github.com/elastic/beats/vendor/github.com/urso/ucfg/reify.go:63 +0x49d github.com/elastic/beats/vendor/github.com/urso/ucfg.reifyMergeValue(0xd216e0, 0x6, 0xd1afe8, 0x1, 0xae7f20, 0xc821282228, 0x195, 0xffff80ffbf346498, 0xc821236068, 0x0, ...) /export/home/shamoh/go/go1_6/go/src/github.com/elastic/beats/vendor/github.com/urso/ucfg/reify.go:271 +0x807 github.com/elastic/beats/vendor/github.com/urso/ucfg.reifyGetField(0xc821236050, 0xd216e0, 0x6, 0xd1afe8, 0x1, 0xc821247450, 0x9, 0xae7f20, 0xc821282228, 0x195, ...) /export/home/shamoh/go/go1_6/go/src/github.com/elastic/beats/vendor/github.com/urso/ucfg/reify.go:126 +0x1c9 github.com/elastic/beats/vendor/github.com/urso/ucfg.reifyStruct(0xd216e0, 0x6, 0xd1afe8, 0x1, 0xcbcc40, 0xc8211da200, 0x199, 0xc821236050, 0x0, 0x0) /export/home/shamoh/go/go1_6/go/src/github.com/elastic/beats/vendor/github.com/urso/ucfg/reify.go:102 +0x6ee github.com/elastic/beats/vendor/github.com/urso/ucfg.reifyInto(0xd216e0, 0x6, 0xd1afe8, 0x1, 0xcbcc40, 0xc8211da200, 0x199, 0xc821236050, 0x0, 0x0) /export/home/shamoh/go/go1_6/go/src/github.com/elastic/beats/vendor/github.com/urso/ucfg/reify.go:37 +0x306 github.com/elastic/beats/vendor/github.com/urso/ucfg.(*Config).Unpack(0xc821236050, 0xaae9e0, 0xc8211da200, 0xc8211c3db0, 0x1, 0x1, 0x0, 0x0) /export/home/shamoh/go/go1_6/go/src/github.com/elastic/beats/vendor/github.com/urso/ucfg/reify.go:22 +0x204 github.com/elastic/beats/libbeat/cfgfile.Read(0xaae9e0, 0xc8211da200, 0xc8211ca450, 0x27, 0x0, 0x0) /export/home/shamoh/go/go1_6/go/src/github.com/elastic/beats/libbeat/cfgfile/cfgfile.go:65 +0x5bd github.com/elastic/beats/packetbeat/beater.(*Packetbeat).Config(0xc8211da200, 0xc8211de480, 0x0, 0x0) /export/home/shamoh/go/go1_6/go/src/github.com/elastic/beats/packetbeat/beater/packetbeat.go:108 +0x5d github.com/elastic/beats/libbeat/beat.(*Beat).Start(0xc8211de480, 0x0, 0x0) /export/home/shamoh/go/go1_6/go/src/github.com/elastic/beats/libbeat/beat/beat.go:166 +0xdc github.com/elastic/beats/libbeat/beat.Run.func1(0xc8211de480) /export/home/shamoh/go/go1_6/go/src/github.com/elastic/beats/libbeat/beat/beat.go:121 +0x42 created by github.com/elastic/beats/libbeat/beat.Run /export/home/shamoh/go/go1_6/go/src/github.com/elastic/beats/libbeat/beat/beat.go:133 +0x8d ``` ---
**Author:** ![andrewkroh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/andrewkroh/32/3784_2.png) [@andrewkroh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/andrewkroh)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2016, 1:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/beats-for-solaris-platform/44722/4 "2016-03-22T13:19:33Z")
I do not think this is a Solaris specific issue. It looks more like a config parsing issue/bug. Can you please post your configuration file. ---
**Author:** ![techrawther](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/41988e/32.png) [@techrawther](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/techrawther)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2016, 2:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/beats-for-solaris-platform/44722/5 "2016-03-22T14:02:57Z")
@andrewkroh Please find my devices output. Also the packetbeat config file. ``` sudo ./packetbeat -devices 0: net0 (No description available) 1: lo0 (No description available) ``` > ---
**Author:** ![andrewkroh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/andrewkroh/32/3784_2.png) [@andrewkroh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/andrewkroh)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2016, 2:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/beats-for-solaris-platform/44722/6 "2016-03-22T14:26:57Z")
Thanks, I can reproduce the issue on OSX. We are investigating. ---
**Author:** ![andrewkroh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/andrewkroh/32/3784_2.png) [@andrewkroh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/andrewkroh)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2016, 2:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/beats-for-solaris-platform/44722/7 "2016-03-22T14:34:16Z")
I should have also mentioned the work-around. If you remove the empty config options (like `mysql:`) this should allow it to start. ---
**Author:** ![techrawther](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/41988e/32.png) [@techrawther](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/techrawther)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2016, 2:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/beats-for-solaris-platform/44722/8 "2016-03-22T14:39:08Z")
Thanks @andrewkroh that indeed worked for packetbeats. FYI.. Also the same config with out removing empty config worked on other platforms like linux. Is this a candidate bug for Solaris ? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2017, 9:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/beats-for-solaris-platform/44722/9 "2017-07-05T21:54:19Z")