Re: Red Hat 9 and Oracle 9.2 Warning.

Hi Gogala,

Thanks for the information. You saved me one more night's sleep. Last night, I spent time on downloading/installing Linux 9 and tonight's plan was to install Oracle9i Rel 2. Looks like I need to wait instead of wasting my time and sleep. Once again, thanks for sharing your experience.

Good Luck!
CP

Mladen Gogala wrote:
> Warning...Warning..Warning
>
> After quite an exciting night, I came to the conclusion that
> Oracle 9.2 cannot be safely installed on RH 9.
> Here is what happened:
> 1) JRE from CD wouldn't work. That can be solved by setting:
> export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.1
> and disable floating stack threading as available in the newer kernels.
> 2) When trying to link oracle, I got a ton of undefined symbols, mostly
> starting with __ctype, which I believe to be part of the old glibc
> and mssing from the old glibc.
> 3) I installed the libc from my RH 8.0 CD but my X11 would no
> longer work. At the end, I loaded RH 8.0 back and decided to wait
> for the proper oracle support.
>
> Bottom line: Red Hat broke the binary compatibility (that was the
> reason for the new major release number and not RH 8.1 or alike) and
> Oracle no longer works. As the two companys are working together, it
> is just a matter of few monts until oracle releases patches that will
> enable it to work with RH 9. Until then , steer clear of Red Hat 9.
Received on Tue Apr 08 2003 - 09:33:34 CDT