Re: Help need for Oracle 8.1.6 on RH 7.0

jhaskins,

Thanks for your help for the method in your post. It did help. Now I have the starter db installed on RH7.0. I have been frustrated for one month and finally you help me out.

Thanks again,

dalianya
In article <3A80EB8B.BB2ABBAD_at_uswest.net>,   jhaskins <jhaskins_at_uswest.net> wrote:
> This helped me, same situation. Sorry about the formatting - jhaskins
>
> From the OTN:
> If you're having trouble with Oracle 8.1.x on any version of Linux
 that
> uses glibc version 2.2,
> try this and see if it solves your problem:
>
> The problem is that Oracle 8.1.x needs glibc 2.1.3. It will link
 without
> error with glibc 2.2, but
> when you try to run dbassist or create a database from scratch, there
> are problems (dbassist
> hangs, "End of file on communication channel", etc.)
>
> Here is a step-by-step process for getting Oracle 8.1.6 or 8.1.7
 working
> on systems with glibc
> 2.2 (don't bother with 8.1.5 if you can help it):
>
> 1. Install the compat-glibc RPM for 2.1.3.x
>
> 2. cd to the directory where compat-glibc installed the files (for me
> it's
> /usr/i386-glibc21-linux/lib).
> 3. Copy the following files to $ORACLE_HOME/lib:
>
> libc-2.1.3.so
> libpthread.so
> libdl.so
> ld-linux.so.2
>
> For me, several of these are symbolic links, so you'll need to copy
 the
> target of the symbolic
> link and rename it to the link name when you copy it to
> $ORACLE_HOME/lib.
>
> For example, if ls -l shows:
>
> ld-linux.so.2 -> ld-2.1.3.so
> libc-2.1.3.so
> libdl.so -> libdl.so.2
> libpthread.so -> libpthread.so.0
>
> Then you will:
>
> cp ld-2.1.3.so
> $ORACLE_HOME/lib/ld-linux.so.2
> cp libc-2.1.3.so $ORACLE_HOME/lib
> cp libdl.so.2 $ORACLE_HOME/lib/libdl.so
> cp libpthread.so.0
> $ORACLE_HOME/lib/libpthread.so
>
> 4. Create a file in $ORACLE_HOME/lib called libc.so with the following
> contents (as a single
> line):
>
> GROUP ( <OH>/lib/libc-2.1.3.so <OH>/lib/ld-linux.so.2
> <CL>/libc_nonshared.a )
>
> Substitute the value of $ORACLE_HOME for <OH> and the location of the
> compat-glibc
> directory for <CL>. For example:
>
> My $ORACLE_HOME is:
> /u01/app/oracle/product/8.1.7
>
> (Notice the use of the OFA standard? Do yourself and others a favor -
> follow the standard. If
> you don't know what OFA is, please see the Oracle Administrator's
 Guide
> for UNIX.)
>
> and my compat-glibc directory is:
>
> /usr/i386-glibc21-linux/lib
>
> so the GROUP line looks like this for me:
>
> GROUP (/u01/app/oracle/product/8.1.7/lib/libc-2.1.3.so
> /u01/app/oracle/product/8.1.7/lib/ld-linux.so.2
> /usr/i386-glibc21-linux/lib/libc_nonshared.a)
>
> This is all one line.
>
> 5. cd $ORACLE_HOME/bin
> 6. Run the following command from the UNIX prompt:
>
> relink all
>
> All of the Oracle software, including the assitants, will work fine
 now.
>
> I have used this technique for RedHat 7.0 with the 2.2.16 kernel, as
> well as the 2.4.0 and
> 2.4.1-pre11 kernels.
>
> Thanks to Richard Rankin for this simple and reliable method (there
 are
> others, but they are not
> as clean).
>
> John Smiley
> Sr. Oracle DBA
> Lucent Technologies, Inc.
>
> dalianya_at_my-deja.com wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I just installed Oracle8i on RH 7.0. The GUI installer runs ok for
> > Oracle software installation. When it comes to the GUI database
> > configuration tools to create the starter database, the GUI tool
 just
> > hang there forever without any error message. I tried a couple of
 times
> > to create the starter database, everytime it get hang when it reach
 80%
> > done.
> >
> > My hardware is:
> > RAM 192M
> > Swap 500M
> > CPU Celeron 500MHz
> > HD 10GB
> >
> > I also tried to create the database by generating a script and run
 the
> > script in console mode. when you run the generated script, it prompt
> > you to SVRMGRL and if you type startup, it hangs again!
> >
> > Any help will greatlly appreciated!!
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
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