Re: Red Hat 9 and Oracle 9.2 Warning.

From: Frank <fvanbortel_at_netscape.net>
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 20:47:25 +0200
Message-ID: <3E95BC3D.1060100@netscape.net>

haud howdy wrote:

> "Mladen Gogala" <mgogala_at_adelphia.net> wrote in message
> news:pan.2003.04.08.10.26.51.315067_at_adelphia.net...
> 

>>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

Known fact as of RH 7.3...
>> and disable floating stack threading as available in the newer kernels.
Hey - how to do that?

>>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.

Known fact - actually, you can download a working binutils rpm off oracle's patch site...

>>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.
>>

Oracle doesn't support this combo (9iR2/RH8.0) either...

>>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.

What makes you say that?

-- 
Regards, Frank van Bortel

Received on Thu Apr 10 2003 - 13:47:25 CDT