Cannot run fusioninventory-agent on Apple M1

[MicaENSL]

On a brand new MacBook Pro with M1 chipset, installation went OK but when launching /opt/fusioninventory/bin/fusioninventory-agent I got th following message:
unable to execute /opt/fusioninventory/bin/fusioninventory-agent: Bad CPU type in executable.
Regards,

MC

[g-bougard]

Hi @MicaENSL
Apple M1 is really new and we don't have such platform so we can't rebuild the provided perl for M1.
So only Intel based OS is suportted at the moment.

[we-sell-bags]

someone will need to download the latest version of "xcode",
and add the new m1 to the build targets of the project, it will cross compile from intel

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/xcode/building_a_universal_macos_binary

[g-bougard]

Hi @we-sell-bags

thank you for the link, but the main problem here is to build our dedicated perl and openssl for the arch and we don't have such computers to test the result. Indeed we could still try to build a dedicated and native installer for M1 as GH is providing such systems for the GH Actions workflow.

[g-bougard]

I read this morning in the 5.32.1 perldelta page the following sentence:

MacOS (Darwin)

    The hints file for darwin has been updated to handle future macOS versions beyond 10. Perl can now be built on macOS Big Sur.

This is a first step.

[andreasbrett]

https://github.com/openssl/openssl/blob/52c587d60be67c337364b830dd3fdc15404a2f04/CHANGES#L62
openssl/openssl@61168b5

next step: openssl also added m1 support in the latest stable (1.1.1j). is there a rough idea when fusioninventory-agent could become m1 compatible?

[glassworksvfx]

Am I reading this correct that the problem is not necessarily the M1 chip but rather MacOS 11?
I can't get 2.6-2 to run on MacOS 11 aka Big Sur.

Happy to beta test if something is available.

[glassworksvfx]

Has there been any progress on this? I seem to fail to get the agent to run on an intel MacBook running Big Sur (MacOS 11)

[g-bougard]

Hi there,

indeed I managed to produce an agent which runs on Apple M1 and with still few fixes regarding Apple Silicon CPU support. Indeed the agent is GLPI-Agent which is a fork of FusionInventory Agent 2.6. This agent has few more included features and some others are under development, but by default it behaves exactly like FusionInventory Agent 2.6.

Even if there's still no official release, I put the latest generated development packages there:
http://prebuilt.fusioninventory.org/stable/macosx-arm64/

The packages are extracted from MacOSX-Build artifact produced in this Github Actions job.
This development release includes perl 5.32.1 & openssl 1.1.1k.

Can you give it a try ?

[glassworksvfx]

Brilliant news. Thank you. I will get testing immediately.

[glassworksvfx]

Hi Guillaume,
unfortunately I can't get it to run and I seem to be struggling with the same problem on every machine running MacOS 11 (Big Sur). The daemon won't launch, even after a reboot.

sudo launchctl list|grep glpi
-	1	org.glpi-project.glpi-agent

The machines on Catalina are no problem. Not sure if I'm doing something wrong but tried every possible route now.

[g-bougard]

Hi @glassworksvfx
you probably missed the fact the agent needs to have a server set in a configuration file. Did you set it up ?
If not, the installation path being /Applications/GLPI-Agent.app, create a file myserver.cfg under /Applications/GLPI-Agent.app/etc/conf.d with server = http://myserver/plugins/fusioninventory.
If this is not sufficient, can you try the following scripts ?
/Applications/GLPI-Agent.app/bin/glpi-inventory

/Applications/GLPI-Agent.app/bin/glpi-agent --logger=stderr --debug --debug

But anyway, it's not a good idea to hijack the fusioninventory-agent issues to investigate a glpi-agent issue. You should probably better create one there and link this one to keep a following.

[glassworksvfx]

Hi @g-bougard,

apologies, didn't know this wasn't the right place. I will do some more digging with the debug instructions and if need be create a post in the appropiate place.

[glassworksvfx]

After correcting a couple of syntax errors in my config file (was missing the 'server = ...' entry in front of the URL) I can confirm this is working. Thank you for your help.

[Loopers29]

Hi @g-bougard !
Do you have any news about this?
We have many Mac M1 unfortunately...
Regards,

VF

[g-bougard]

Hi @Loopers29
as explained earlier, you'll have to use GLPI Agent for Apple M1.
The news since then is you can download the latest build from GLPI Agent nightly builds: look there for "MacOSX - Apple Silicon" build for arm64 arch.