Oracle 8i install fails during link on Sun Solaris 7

From: Fattyoats <cmpayne_at_uswest.net>
Date: 2000/05/02
Message-ID: <390f3614.468928843@news.aracnet.com>#1/1

I am trying to install Oracle 8i EE Release 2 (8.1.6) on a Sun SPARC running Solaris 2.7 but the link process fails near the end of the installation. To the best of my knowledge I have followed all of the pre-installation tasks outlined in the Installation Guide. The Installation Guide claims that the required executables are make, ar, ld, nm in /usr/ccs/bin. Just to make sure everything is working right:

$ echo $PATH
$ORACLE_HOME/product/8.1.6/bin:/usr/bin:/etc:/usr/ccs/bin:/usr/local/bin:.
$ type make

make is a tracked alias for /usr/ccs/bin/make $ type ld
ld is /usr/ccs/bin/ld
$ type ar
ar is /usr/ccs/bin/ar
$ type nm
nm is /usr/ccs/bin/nm

The first error that I receive is when the installer tries to perform an install operation for the Secure Socket Layer component. The installer is trying to do a make on the Makefile called ins_net_client.mk on the target nnfgt.o. Here is a snippet that I pulled from the log file called
$ORACLE_HOME/oraInventory/logs/installActions2000-04-28_12-55-04-PM.log:

---snip----

Starting install install phase 1 of component Secure Socket Layer Calling action unixActions1.7.0.17.0 make

        installMakePath = /usr/ccs/bin/make
        installMakeFileName = NA
        installTarget = NA
        installArguments = 
        undoMakeFileName =


/private/oracle/product/8.1.6/network/lib/ins_net_client.mk

        undoTarget = nnfgt.o
        undoArguments = ORACLE_HOME =/private/oracle/product/8.1.6,
        logFile = /private/oracle/product/8.1.6/install/make.log

---snip----

I clicked on the "Retry" button a few times from the Installer GUI but I continued to get the same error. I finally clicked "Ignore" and the installer proceeded a little further but then more link errors were encountered. Here is the listing from the log file called $ORACLE_HOME/product/8.1.6/install/make.log:

---snip----

$ more $ORACLE_HOME/product/8.1.6/install/make.log
/usr/ccs/bin/make -f ins_net_client.mk nnfgt.o ORACLE_HOME
=/private/oracle/product/8.1.6
/usr/ccs/bin/make -f ins_net_client.mk nnfgt.o ORACLE_HOME
=/private/oracle/product/8.1.6
/usr/ccs/bin/make -f ins_net_client.mk nnfgt.o ORACLE_HOME
=/private/oracle/product/8.1.6
/usr/ccs/bin/make -f ins_net_client.mk nnfgt.o ORACLE_HOME
=/private/oracle/product/8.1.6
/usr/ccs/bin/make -f ins_net_client.mk nnfgt.o ORACLE_HOME
=/private/oracle/product/8.1.6
/usr/ccs/bin/make -f ins_net_client.mk ntcontab.o

ORACLE_HOME=/private/oracle/product/8.1.6


/usr/ccs/bin/make -f ins_net_client.mk ntcontab.o

ORACLE_HOME=/private/oracle/product/8.1.6


/usr/ccs/bin/make -f ins_net_client.mk ntcontab.o

ORACLE_HOME=/private/oracle/product/8.1.6


/usr/ccs/bin/make -f ins_net_client.mk ntcontab.o

ORACLE_HOME=/private/oracle/product/8.1.6


/usr/ccs/bin/make -f ins_net_client.mk ntcontab.o

ORACLE_HOME=/private/oracle/product/8.1.6


/usr/ccs/bin/make -f ins_net_client.mk ntcontab.o

ORACLE_HOME=/private/oracle/product/8.1.6


/usr/ccs/bin/make -f ins_net_client.mk nnfgt.o

ORACLE_HOME=/private/oracle/product/8.1.6


/usr/ccs/bin/make -f ins_net_client.mk nnfgt.o

ORACLE_HOME=/private/oracle/product/8.1.6


/usr/ccs/bin/make -f ins_rdbms.mk part_on

ORACLE_HOME=/private/oracle/product/8.1.6


/usr/ccs/bin/make -f ins_nau.mk nautab.o

ORACLE_HOME=/private/oracle/product/8.1.6 NAU_ADAPTERS=""


/usr/ccs/bin/make -f ins_rdbms.mk sdo_on

ORACLE_HOME=/private/oracle/product/8.1.6


/usr/ccs/bin/make -f ins_rdbms.mk ctx_on

ORACLE_HOME=/private/oracle/product/8.1.6


/usr/ccs/bin/make -f ins_precomp.mk links

/usr/ccs/bin/make -f ins_precomp.mk links

/usr/ccs/bin/make -f ins_net_client.mk mkldflags

ORACLE_HOME=/private/oracle/product/8.1.6


/usr/ccs/bin/make -f ins_net_client.mk client_sharedlib

ORACLE_HOME=/private/oracle/product/8.1.6


/usr/ccs/bin/make -f ins_sqlplus.mk install

ORACLE_HOME=/private/oracle/product/8.1.6


/usr/ccs/bin/make -f ins_net_client.mk install

ORACLE_HOME=/private/oracle/product/8.1.6


/usr/ccs/bin/make -f ins_plsql.mk install

ORACLE_HOME=/private/oracle/product/8.1.6


/usr/ccs/bin/make -f ins_ldap.mk toolsinstall

ORACLE_HOME=/private/oracle/product/8.1.6


/usr/ccs/bin/make -f ins_rdbms.mk ioracle

ORACLE_HOME=/private/oracle/product/8.1.6


/usr/ccs/bin/make -f ins_cman.mk install

ORACLE_HOME=/private/oracle/product/8.1.6


/usr/ccs/bin/make -f ins_names.mk install

ORACLE_HOME=/private/oracle/product/8.1.6


/usr/ccs/bin/make -f ins_precomp.mk relink

ORACLE_HOME=/private/oracle/product/8.1.6 EXENAME=ott


/usr/ccs/bin/make -f ins_net_server.mk install

ORACLE_HOME=/private/oracle/product/8.1.6


/usr/ccs/bin/make -f ins_oemagent.mk install

ORACLE_HOME=/private/oracle/product/8.1.6

/usr/ccs/bin/make -f ins_odg.mk install

ORACLE_HOME=/private/oracle/product/8.1.6

---snip----

I have tried several Typical installs and a few Custom installs and I continue to get these problems. At this point, I really don't understand why Oracle 8i is not installing. Do I need more patches from Sun for the OS? Do I need a copy of Sun Workshop installed on the machine to install Oracle 8i? Should I try Oracle 8 instead of 8i?

Any help would be greatly appreciated,
Craig Received on Tue May 02 2000 - 00:00:00 CDT