Re: Oracle 8i EE ON Linux

Fuzzy wrote:

> On Tue, 12 Oct 1999 12:28:52 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman <kevin_at_ayuda.com>
> wrote:
>
> >Two things: I have been unable to make Oracle run on Caldera 2.2 or 2.3, in
> >spite
> >of their insisting that it does. However, the Caldera instructions do work
> >for
> >installing on a fresh RedHat 6.0 that I have dual-booted on the same machine.
> >
> >One gotcha: neither one would work with jre 116v5; I had to go to 117v3 even
> >though the docs indicate otherwise. That got it running; now I'm into a
> >whole
> >slew of other problems, but at least I have a database.
>
> Kevin,
>
> What was the problem with jre 116v5? I keep getting "Warning: Cannot
> allocate colormap entry for default background." when I start
> runInstaller.
>
> I'll grab jre 117v3 and give it a try.
>
> Ciao
> Fuzzy
> :-)

Well, I seem to remember that I didn't even get that far. I would get the message that
Java was being initialized, and the process would stop. Investigation with strace(1)
revealed a seg fault. Since you're getting different behaviour, you may get different
results. Good luck.

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Kevin O'Gorman (805) 650-6274 kevin_at_ayuda.com At school: kogorman_at_cs.ucsb.edu
Permanent e-mail forwarder: Kevin.O'Gorman.64_at_Alum.Dartmouth.org Received on Tue Oct 12 1999 - 21:20:14 CDT