Re: OUI and >30 character kernel names

On Oct 29, 12:05 pm, Brian Tkatch <N/A> wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Oct 2007 12:04:00 -0400, Brian Tkatch <N/A> wrote:
> >Oracle 9.2
>
> >While trying to install the Oracle client on a server, the team got an
> >error. Searching for this error on google found the following where
> >someone hit the same error:
> ><URL:http://kevinclosson.wordpress.com/2007/04/18/dont-install-oracle-on-l...>.
>
> >Basically, if the kernel name has more than 30 characters, the OUI
> >will crash. We're using both SLES8 and SLES9 (SUSE installs). On the
> >SLES 8 servers we're fine: $ uname -r |wc
> > 1 1 19
> >as it only has 18 chars, and indeed the OUI worked there. The failing
> >server is SLES9: $ uname -r | wc
> > 1 1 43
> >and the 42 character kenel name is ostensibly causing the issue.
>
> >Is this a known issue? Is there a workaround other than recompiling
> >the kernel?
>
> >B.
>
> Oops, silly me, relying on a web page an not giving the actual error:
>
> *** glibc detected *** free(): invalid next size (normal): 0x0806fbd0
> ***
> *** glibc detected *** free(): invalid next size (normal): 0x0806fd40
> ***
>
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Brian, Besides Kevin's blog entry on this problem if there is anywhere else where a post on this issue may be found (my metalink search turned up nothing) it might be in the Oracle-L archives available via freelists.org.

HTH -- Mark D Powell -- Received on Mon Oct 29 2007 - 18:45:13 CDT