Re: Oracle 8.1.6 and Red Hat 7

From: Phil Britton <phil.britton_at_prismtechnologies.com>
Date: 13 Oct 2000 11:59:12 +0100
Message-ID: <upul5t3b3.fsf@prismtechnologies.com>

"Philip Ross" <philip_ross_at_my-deja.com> writes:

> "Etienne Laverdiere" <info_at_digitaltango.com> wrote in message
> news:qwZE5.319239$Gh.9272118_at_news20.bellglobal.com...
> > What kind of problem do you have? I just installed Oracle 8.1.6 r2
> > Entreprise Edition on my Linux Red Hat 7.0 and it seems find. My "only"
> > problem now is that I cnno't create a database correctly! Do you hve the
> > same problem?
>
> I hadn't actually installed it yet, but was planning to install Oracle 8.1.6
> r2 Enterpirse on a Red Hat system. The reason I asked was because there were
> reports on the Oracle forums (take a look in the Linux forum at
> http://technet.oracle.com) saying that installation would fail - I think
> this was to do with not being able to create a database.
>

There appear to be some issues with the version of glibc shipped with RH 7.0. There has been an update to the glibc packages since release, but I'm waiting to hear from RH if these fix the Oracle problems

Phil

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Received on Fri Oct 13 2000 - 05:59:12 CDT