Re: 8.1.5 on RH Linux 6.0 - JRE/JDK problem

Jose,

Thanks for your input. At least it would appear, I have a workable installation option, just so long as I follow the instructions ;-)

The problem seemed so unlikely, that it really threw me for a loop. I never thought that the jdk could have such major incompatibilities between sub.sub releases. Or that Oracle couldn't dodge them in their coding. I also think that Oracle must be doing some funny business with the JRE, else why do they require the link to usr/local/bin/....?

I'd be barking big time, if I had a little more experience with UNIX. My experience is almost all PC/Microsnot.
I just want to escape from the land of NT, sooooooo bad, but heck, maybe its big bad Bill who's getting the last laugh? ;-)

... later

Mark

"José Luis Rojano" wrote:

> Hello Mark!
>
> I've had exactly the same problem. After all the installation process the
> installer told me it failed because it couldn't find the Thread.class
> file... I've made the installation with jdk116v5
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thanx,
>
> Jose.
>
> mark tompkins <tompkins_at_home.com> wrote in message
> news:3802BEAB.D5E60EE6_at_home.com...
> > Hi,
> >
> > I was able to successfully install Oracle 8.0.5 on RH 5.1.
> >
> > I upgraded RH 5.1 to 6.0, and the java environment worked after the
> > upgrade (blackdown jdk/jre 1.1.7 v3). I increased the size of my swap
> > partition from 60 to 455 MBytes.
> >
> > I tried to install Oracle 8.1.5 on Red Hat 6.0, and the installation
> > almost worked the first time. OUI loaded from the CD, and ran without
> > error, until the verfication phase of the installation, whence it
> > failed. When I re-ran OUI to check the installed
> > packages, everything appears to have been installed successfully. The
> > failure seems to occur during the installation validation phase,
> > possibly when the dbassist program was run to create a new database???
> >
> > When I try to run any of the Java applications, such as dbassist, it
> > fails, because it can't find class java/lang/Thread, or something
> > similar.
> >
> > The problem can be replicated just running a simple JDK applet.
> > I have installed the Blackdown JRE for 1.1.7 v3. I have also installed
> > the Blackdown JDK 1.1.7 v3.
> >
> > I can replicate the problem with appletviewer, and jre. Here is the
> > jre sequence:
> >
> > jre -classpath /workarea/jws/proj1 proj1.class
> > Unable to initialize threads: cannot find class java/lang/Thread
> > Could not create Java VM
> >
> > When I try the same applet using appletviewer, I get:
> >
> > appletviewer proj1.html
> > Warning: Cannot allocate colormap entry for default background.
> > File not found when looking for: proj1
> > java.lang.NullPointerException
> > at
> > sun.applet.AppletPanel.createApplet(AppletPanel.java:456)
> > at
> > sun.applet.AppletPanel.runLoader(AppletPanel.java:392)
> > at sun.applet AppletPanel.run(AppletPanel.java:231)
> > at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java)
> >
> > This looks like a 'can't find the classes.zip' file problem. But, I've
> > defined classpath, put the classes.zip onto the path,
> > you name it. Whereas when I started trying to fix this problem, only
> > jre didn't work, now both appletviewer and jre fail
> > the same way.
> >
> > thx for all your help
> >
> > Mark
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
Received on Wed Oct 13 1999 - 22:47:19 CDT