Re: Anyone Else Having Major Problems with SQL*Menu Core Dumping?

Known problem if only you talk to the UNIX people, not the TOOLS people. Go into the makefile for sqlmenu5 ($ORACLE_HOME/menu5/lib)

-rw-r--r-- 1 oracle dba 10196 Oct 30 14:14 sqlmenu5.mk

and find the line that contains "-lmalloc". REMOVE just the "-lmalloc" part leaving behind the remainder of the libraries specified. Now relink and install Sql*Menu 5.0 by running (as user oracle) "update install"   $ cd $ORACLE_HOME/install
  $ oracle.install menu5

Have everyone quit from sqlmenu50/runmenu50 before this, though, and make sure you have about 15 megabytes free where /usr/oracle lives.

-andy

sbrenner_at_cbnewsb.cb.att.com (scott.d.brenner) writes:
>I'm running SQL*Menu 5.0.11.3.1 on a 386 box with Interactive UNIX
>System 5, Release 4.0, Version 3.0. My RDBMS is 6.0.33.1.2. I'm
>having a lot of problems with sql*menu core dumping. The main problem
>is that runmenu50 core dumps when I hit the [Exit] key (I'm running
>a vt100 emulation and have no problems with SQL*Forms). It also dumps
>if I hit the [Application Menu] key.
>
>The technical support people seem to be clueless. They just keep
>chanting their mantra "you should upgrade." I'm getting a little
>tired of this attitude of dealing with buggy versions of their products
>by telling their customers just to upgrade. It's often inconvenient,
>difficult, or impossible for us to upgrade. Many times installing a
>newer version of something to solve one problem introduces five new
>problems.
>
>Has anyone else run into difficulties with SQL*Menu? If so, do you
>have any hints or tips that would be useful?
>
>While I'm waiting (over a day, now) for Oracle technical support to
>figure out what's wrong, I'm turning to the net for help. People here
>often seem to know their products and problems better than Oracle
>does.
>

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