Re: Oracle 8.1.7 installation on Linux

sorry I have made a mistake in the description of the install process. The file that you should create in step (4) should be named "libc.so" NOT "lib.so"

sorry for that

Walter

"Walter Dorninger" <walter.dorninger_at_aon.at> wrote in message news:3ab5f8af$0$20148_at_SSP1NO25.highway.telekom.at...
> Your problem is that SuSE 7.1 ships with glibc 2.2.
>
> You have two solutions:
> (1) Wait until the guys at ORACLE recompiled their stuff using glibc 2.2 -
> I think they are planning to release a patch for this in the next few
 days,
> weeks... ;-)
> (2) You will use glibc 2.1 with ORACLE.
>
> I'll explain method (2) and who I got the stuff up and running with glibc
> 2.1 (it's quite strait forward).
> btw. this also works with RH 7.0 with 2.2.16 kernel and 2.4.0 kernel and
> 2.4.1-pre11 kernels
>
> My first problem was that the installer did not work for Oracle 8.1.7. I
> had to unset the LANG variable on my system ("unset LANG"). Now the
> installation worked fine.
>
> Now we come to the tricky part. Starting up an instance will fail with the
> installation. Therefore you have to change the glibc library used by
 Oracle.
>
> (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
>
> e.g. 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 lib.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>
>
> e.g. the file should contain a line like the following
>
> 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 should be all ONE line !!
>
> (5) cd $ORACLE_HOME/bin
>
> (6) Run the following command on the UNIX prompt:
>
> relink all
>
> (7) you are done.
>
> Thanks to Richard Rankin for this simple method,
> Thanks to John Smiley (Lucent Technologies) who provided me with this
> method.
>
> If you have further questions let me know...
>
> Walter Dorninger
> walter.dorninger_at_aon.at
>
>
>
> gert_de_boer_at_ch.schindler.com wrote:
>
> > I hear the same everywhere:
> >
> > Use Red Hat 6.2 or SuSE 7.0.
> >
> > I was succesful on both of them.
> >
> > Gert de Boer
> > Schindler Lifts Ltd. Switzerland
> >
> >
>
Received on Thu Mar 22 2001 - 03:04:40 CST