Oracle 8.1.7, RedHat 7.3, dbassist hangs

Hi folks,

I'm trying to install Oracle 8.1.7 on RedHat 7.3, having quite successfully done so on 7.2 using the instructions posted at --

  http://staff.in2.hr/denis/oracle/817install_rh72_en.html

I was able to install Oracle just fine, but the database creation assistant hangs and starts to gobble up huge amounts of CPU time and memory (up to a 1GB). To isolate what's going on, I installed Oracle without the database creation, then ran dbassist manually. In fact, I hacked the 'dbassist' shell script to run using 'java' rather than 'jre' and, rather than failing silently, I now get the following stack trace --

java.lang.NullPointerException
at NetConfig.getBestLocalListenerEndpoint(NetConfig.java:631) at NetConfig.getLocalListenerEntry(NetConfig.java:584) at CreateOracle_base.getListeners(CreateOracle_base.java:1397) at CreateOracle.CreateDatabase(CreateOracle.java:299) at CreateOracle.run(CreateOracle.java:88) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java)

Other than the stack trace, the behavior of dbassist run "my" way is consistent with that of the default script. So, assuming if I may that the above is indeed what's causing dbassist to hang, what could be causing this?

I'm installing using the following --

  RedHat Linux 7.3, kernel as-installed
  glibc-2.1.3-stubs.tar.gz
  jdk118_v3-glibc-2.1.3.tar.bz2 (from Blackdown)   linux81701.tar (installation archive downloaded from Oracle OTN)

Thank you for any help you can provide. Regards and peace,

Ihab

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Ihab A.B. Awad, iawad (at) scimagix (dot) com