Oracle 8.1.6 installation on SuSE 8.1

Hello,

I was able to successfully install Oracle 8.1.6 EE on an earlier version of SuSE Linux (6.3) but am running into problems on SuSE 8.1. I have a developer's release which came with a book called "Oracle 8i for Linux Starter Kit" (by Steve Bobrowski, publ. by Osborne, ISBN 0-07-212442-3) and do not relish downloading 3 CD's worth of data from the Oracle website (i.e. 9i) just to get this to work... also do not relish the idea of going back to an earlier version of SuSE Linux, since I am pretty much hooked on the newer version by now :-)

The installation (mode: "typical") went smoothly until the sample database failed to install (error was "ORA-12547: TNS:lost contact"). After visiting the SuSE support site for Oracle, I went to the Oracle site and downloaded the glibc patch and installed that. Still no go. Then I relinked the executables after editing the ld.so.conf file to add the missing "-lsnl" option. Still no go...

ORACLE_HOME and ORACLE_SID are properly set to "/usr/oracle" and "oralin" respectively, as well as several other environment variables required by the installer.

When I run svrmrl, I get the following output:

>>>>>>>

Oracle Server Manager Release 3.1.6.0.0 - Production

Copyright (c) 1997, 1999, Oracle Corporation. All Rights Reserved.

oracleoralin: relocation error: /usr/oracle/lib/libjox8.so: undefined symbol: __fixunssfdi
ORA-12547: TNS:lost contact
SVRMGR> quit
oracleoralin: relocation error: /usr/oracle/lib/libjox8.so: undefined symbol: __fixunssfdi
SVRMGR> Server Manager complete.
>>>>>>>>

It seems strange that "oracleoralin" is all run together ... is that normal?

What do I do next? TIA,

Bob Hairgrove
(obviously not a DBA<g>),
rhairgroveNoSpam_at_Pleasebigfoot.com Received on Tue Jan 21 2003 - 10:25:00 CST