Re: 8.1.5 on RH Linux 6.0 - JRE/JDK problem

Hello Mark!

I've had exactly the same problem. After all the installation process the installer told me it failed because it couldn't find the Thread.class file... I've made the installation with jdk116v5

Any suggestions?

Thanx,

Jose.

mark tompkins <tompkins_at_home.com> wrote in message news:3802BEAB.D5E60EE6_at_home.com...
> Hi,
>
> I was able to successfully install Oracle 8.0.5 on RH 5.1.
>
> I upgraded RH 5.1 to 6.0, and the java environment worked after the
> upgrade (blackdown jdk/jre 1.1.7 v3). I increased the size of my swap
> partition from 60 to 455 MBytes.
>
> I tried to install Oracle 8.1.5 on Red Hat 6.0, and the installation
> almost worked the first time. OUI loaded from the CD, and ran without
> error, until the verfication phase of the installation, whence it
> failed. When I re-ran OUI to check the installed
> packages, everything appears to have been installed successfully. The
> failure seems to occur during the installation validation phase,
> possibly when the dbassist program was run to create a new database???
>
> When I try to run any of the Java applications, such as dbassist, it
> fails, because it can't find class java/lang/Thread, or something
> similar.
>
> The problem can be replicated just running a simple JDK applet.
> I have installed the Blackdown JRE for 1.1.7 v3. I have also installed
> the Blackdown JDK 1.1.7 v3.
>
> I can replicate the problem with appletviewer, and jre. Here is the
> jre sequence:
>
> jre -classpath /workarea/jws/proj1 proj1.class
> Unable to initialize threads: cannot find class java/lang/Thread
> Could not create Java VM
>
> When I try the same applet using appletviewer, I get:
>
> appletviewer proj1.html
> Warning: Cannot allocate colormap entry for default background.
> File not found when looking for: proj1
> java.lang.NullPointerException
> at
> sun.applet.AppletPanel.createApplet(AppletPanel.java:456)
> at
> sun.applet.AppletPanel.runLoader(AppletPanel.java:392)
> at sun.applet AppletPanel.run(AppletPanel.java:231)
> at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java)
>
> This looks like a 'can't find the classes.zip' file problem. But, I've
> defined classpath, put the classes.zip onto the path,
> you name it. Whereas when I started trying to fix this problem, only
> jre didn't work, now both appletviewer and jre fail
> the same way.
>
> thx for all your help
>
> Mark
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Received on Wed Oct 13 1999 - 04:57:53 CDT