Re: installing v7 on AIX

In article <28s32u$s0c_at_vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>, jbarrett_at_s.psych.uiuc.edu (Jenny Barrett) writes:
|> We just installed Oracle v7.0.12 to run under AIX; however, when I
|> try bringing up the server, I get the following error message:
|>
|> Could not load program oracle
|> Symbol shmprot in oracle is undefined
|> Error was: Exec format error

The kernel extensions were not loaded properly. Look in /etc/inittab and you should have three entries:

orapw:2:wait:/etc/loadext /etc/pw-syscall orakx:2:wait:/etc/loadext /etc/adspc
orakx2:2:wait:/etc/adspcinit

Check to make sure one of these is not misspelled (I believe one of the install scripts has an error in it - this should be documented in the release notes).

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