Logstash on Solaris - stat.st_gid unsupported or native support failed to load [SOLVED]

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Dear all,

as I am using Logstash only swith Solaris SPARC environment, I really had the hope that with the freshly released V1.5.1 I would no more run across this error. But I still did, as this example shows:

    
    $ ./bin/logstash -V
    io/console not supported; tty will not be manipulated
    logstash 1.5.1

    user@host :/tools/logstash
    $ ./bin/logstash -f config/test.conf
    io/console not supported; tty will not be manipulated
    NotImplementedError: stat.st_gid unsupported or native support failed to load
                 gid at org/jruby/RubyFileStat.java:247
        atomic_write at /tools/logstash/vendor/bundle/jruby/1.9/gems/filewatch-0.6.3/lib/filewatch/helper.rb:45
      _sincedb_write at /tools/logstash/vendor/bundle/jruby/1.9/gems/filewatch-0.6.3/lib/filewatch/tail.rb:234
       sincedb_write at /tools/logstash/vendor/bundle/jruby/1.9/gems/filewatch-0.6.3/lib/filewatch/tail.rb:204
            teardown at /tools/logstash/vendor/bundle/jruby/1.9/gems/logstash-input-file-0.1.10/lib/logstash/inputs/file.rb:151
         inputworker at /tools/logstash/vendor/bundle/jruby/1.9/gems/logstash-core-1.5.1-java/lib/logstash/pipeline.rb:202
         synchronize at org/jruby/ext/thread/Mutex.java:149
         inputworker at /tools/logstash/vendor/bundle/jruby/1.9/gems/logstash-core-1.5.1-java/lib/logstash/pipeline.rb:202
         start_input at /tools/logstash/vendor/bundle/jruby/1.9/gems/logstash-core-1.5.1-java/lib/logstash/pipeline.rb:170

But after reading through all the linked entries regarding this error it all boiled down to quite a simple fact. It looked like a crypto-library was bugging me out, on whatever reason.
System-Traces pointed to the 'libcryptoutil' as the library in question, so I digged for it

$ find /usr/lib -name 'libcryptoutil*' -ls
 2008    1 lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           18 Mar 27  2009 /usr/lib/sparcv9/libcryptoutil.so -> libcryptoutil.so.1
 2245   61 -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     bin         62336 Aug 10  2010 /usr/lib/sparcv9/libcryptoutil.so.1
 1792    1 lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           20 Mar 27  2009 /usr/lib/libcryptoutil.so -> ./libcryptoutil.so.1
 2151   55 -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     bin         55376 Aug 10  2010 /usr/lib/libcryptoutil.so.1

So, I got this library twice, somehow. Then, I forced the path into using the sparc version of this library like so:

$ export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/sparcv9/:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH

user@host :/tools/logstash
$ ./bin/logstash -f config/test.conf
io/console not supported; tty will not be manipulated
Logstash startup completed
^C
SIGINT received. Shutting down the pipeline. {:level=>:warn}
Logstash shutdown completed

So finally, after correcting my LD Path, I got everything running.

Hopefully this may help other users as well.

Kind Regards,
T. Nickel

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Thanks for sharing the solution :smiley: