From: Marc <marcm@computek.net>
Subject: Re: ./orainst Segmentation Fault
Date: 1997/04/28
Message-ID: <33649F9A.794B@computek.net>#1/1
References: <3353CFEF.3F38@mink.mt.att.com>
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Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server



Roberto Kohler wrote:
> 
> I'm trying to install oracle 7.3.2.1 on SUN Solaris 2.5.
> 
> I get a "Segmentation Fault" when I run "./orainst",  "./orainst /c", or
> "./orainst /m".
> 
> Please let me know if you've run into this problem before.
> 
> This is a description of how I'm getting this error:
> 
> I'm logged in as oracle and my current directory is
> /cdrom/oracle/orainst  when I invoke the command.
> 
> The oracle .profile contains:
>   ORACLE_BASE=/opt/oracle
>   ORACLE_HOME=/opt/oracle/product/7.3.2
>   ORACLE_SID=ebu
>   export ORACLE_BASE ORACLE_HOME ORACLE_SID
> 
> PATH=.:$ORACLE_HOME/bin:/opt/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/ccs/bin:/GNU/bin/make
> 
> I have the following environment variables set:
>    export ORACLE_TERM=hp
>    export DISPLAY=www.xx.yyy.zzz:0.0
>    export
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/cdrom/oracle/lib:$ORACLE_HOME/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
> 
> The following required packages are installed:
> $ pkginfo -i SUNWbtool SUNWtoo SUNWsprot SUNWarc SUNWlibm SUNWlibms
> system      SUNWarc        Archive Libraries
> system      SUNWbtool      CCS tools bundled with SunOS
> system      SUNWlibm       SPARCompilers Bundled libm
> system      SUNWlibms      SPARCompilers Bundled shared libm
> system      SUNWsprot      SPARCompilers Bundled tools
> system      SUNWtoo        Programming Tools
> 
> $ ls -ld $ORACLE_HOME
> drwxr-xr-x   2 oracle   dba          512 Apr 15 08:20
> /opt/oracle/product/7.3.2
> $ ls -ld $ORACLE_BASE
> drwxr-xr-x   3 oracle   dba          512 Apr 15 08:41 /opt/oracle
> 
> Have you ever seen this before?  Do you know how to get around it?
> 
> Thanks.

First, make sure you have the patches to be at Solaris 2.51 there are
real problems with 2.5 and ORACLE.

Second, it's been a while since I installed this on SUN but I had 
exactly the same problems on Solaris 2.4.  I think I finally set the
LD_LIBRARY_PATH to search the /usr/openwin/lib and $ORACLE_HOME/lib
paths - which will be the CDROM.  I had better luck running the motif
version than the character version.  Sorry I don't remember all the 
detail s but it has to do with the dynamic libraries not being present
if I remember correctly.

Check out or utilities for ORACLE on UNIX at:

	http://dbghome.computek.net

and version 2.0 which runs from any http server :)

Hope this helps,
Marc
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