I’m not sure if this is a ROOT problem, but I’m not sure where to ask otherwise, either.
I have a CVMFS stratum 0 server installed and a running version of ROOT 5 inside its repository. This root was built with the XRootD (3.3.6) feature enabled, following the instructions of the User Manual root.cern.ch/installing-xrootd#InstallXrootd. This worked flawlessly.
Now I have two clients, both accessing my CVMFS repository with ROOT. This works as well. I can compile and link against it.
Next I want to access some files on EOS, using XRootD. On one client, this is no problem. On the other, however, I get the error (whether or not I authenticated with Kerberos beforehand)
Plugin No such file or directory loading sec.protocol libXrdSeckrb5.so
Plugin No such file or directory loading sec.protocol libXrdSecgsi.so
I did look for those libraries, but can’t find them anywhere. But that’s also true for the machine where EOS access works.
Because of the first missing library, I checked whether Kerberos access works. It does. The Kerberos configuration (/etc/krb5.conf) is identical on both clients and I can access lxplus using my Kerberos tokens just fine on both machines.
Both clients are running SLC 6 and have access to the same resources. They share the same ROOT from the CVMFS repository and thus the same XRootD. I even looked at a diff of the environment variables and they are identical, as well.
I am lost as to what could do to find the origin of this error. I even tried a local installation of ROOT on the client machine where XRootD is not working. This local installation works, so Kerberos is indeed functioning properly.
It could be a ROOT problem, an XRootD problem or a CVMFS problem or, of course–most probably–an error with my setup and I have no idea how to figure out which one it is. Do you have any ideas?
Thank you very much!