Re: How to install Oracle 9.2 on RedHat 9.0?

From: Dave Hau <davehau-no-spam-123_at_no-spam.netscape.net>
Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2003 11:49:40 -0700
Message-ID: <b8ej92$6v0$1@slb5.atl.mindspring.net>

"Nick Keeman" <nkeeman_at_linuxmail.org> wrote in message news:b8egsa$81t$1_at_news.hccnet.nl...
> Hi Guru's,
>
> I've got Oracle 9.2 running on RedHat 8.0 but would like to move to
> RedHat 9.0. I've heard it doesn't work as the new kernel uses a new way
> of Processing causing Oracle 9.2 no have problems.
>
> Any work arounds yet??
>
> Nick.

My advice is: don't. I set LD_ASSUME_KERNEL to 2.4.1 and successfully installed Oracle 9.2.0.1 on RH9 (except for an error on oemagent which I clicked Ignore.) Went through DBCA to configure the database. It was working fine until I applied the 9.2.0.3 patch. After running catpatch.sql and utlrp.sql, now PL/SQL is now totally broken. I suspect even if this didn't happen, further down the road, I'll run into similar problems also. It seems the glibc 2.3.2 used in RH9 has some major incompatibility with previous glibc versions. Unless you hack the glibc source code and recompile, you have a constant risk of the Oracle server not working quite right.

So, save yourself some headache. Why run Oracle 9.2 on RH9 anyways? The improvement from RH8 to RH9 is not that much. If Oracle 9.2 is running fine on RH8, I'd suggest leaving it alone, unless you're doing this for "fun".

Cheers,
Dave Received on Sat Apr 26 2003 - 13:49:40 CDT