Re: R25DESM gives bus error or internal error

RESULT! We do have a metalink ID. Amazing what you can find within your own organization sometimes. I had wrongly thought that technet.oracle.com was the support site (so you can imagine how let down I felt at that).

Onward and upward then..

"andrew_webby at hotmail" <spam_at_no.thanks.com> wrote in message news:975321921.23540.0.nnrp-07.c30bdde2_at_news.demon.co.uk...
> I think our software vendor has a contract, though that said my company
 may
> have one. Will check it out. Sometimes I forget that I now work that for a
> large company that might just have such things... :-)
>
> Thanks for the help.
>
> "Sybrand Bakker" <postbus_at_sybrandb.demon.nl> wrote in message
> news:8vmsvl$57gg3$5_at_ID-62141.news.dfncis.de...
> > http://support.oracle.com
> > This site is anything but hidden, though you need to have a support
> > contract. I'm sure 1.6 has been desupported a long time ago, so it might
> > have never been certified against 2.7.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Sybrand Bakker, Oracle DBA
> >
> >
> >
> > "andrew_webby at hotmail" <spam_at_no.thanks.com> wrote in message
> > news:975066303.28632.0.nnrp-10.c30bdde2_at_news.demon.co.uk...
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > Under Developer 1.6.1 (patch 11) on Solaris 2.6, this worked fine. We
 then
> > > upgraded the OS to 2.7 and it still worked fine.
> > >
> > > One of the developers was getting 'funny' errors about bind variables
 which
> > > worked perfectly on our production machine and when I looked in
 Help/About,
> > > it reckoned it was linked against 7.3.4.0.0 (db is oracle 8.1.6
 btw..),
 so
> > > in a flash of genius and inspiration, I re-linked reports25 with
 "make -f
> > > ins_reports25d.mk install". Since then, we can't even start r25desm.
> > >
> > > I've checked the ORA_NLS33 variable and moving it between ora816 and
 ora161
> > > gives either "Bus Error(coredump)" or "Internal error starting oracle
> > > toolkit". Have had a good look over the web, but to no avail.
> > >
> > > Tried setting DEBUG_SLFIND=/tmp/awdebug and checking through the log
 there,
> > > but nothing of any use. Tried truss'ing it, but again, nothing. Tried
> > > changing Tk2Motif*fontMapCs as in a similar error I found on the web,
 but
 it
> > > didn't make any difference. Tried removing/reinstalling Reports, but
 nope.
> > >
> > > Have tried to search technet.oracle.com, but God alone knows what the
> > > purpose of that 'search engine' is supposed to be. I've never found
 anything
> > > useful.
> > >
> > > So two questions I suppose: first, anyone know the magic answer to
 solve
 my
> > > problems (hehe)? and secondly, is there a 'hidden' site I can check at
> > > Oracle that lets me at all the groovy patches and bug reports so I
 don't
> > > have to go asking all-and-sundry should I get similar troubles again?
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance
> > >
> > > Andrew
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>
Received on Mon Nov 27 2000 - 09:10:30 CST