Re: Oracle 9i on Redhat 9: no go?
From: Tim <nocomment_at_rogers.com>
Date: Sun, 18 May 2003 16:27:05 GMT
Message-ID: <3EC7B5F9.1020306_at_rogers.com>
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> Red Hat 9 uses glibc 2.3 with the new thread system (NPTL - native
> posix thread library), which is supposed to improve performance. The
> new thread model breaks a small number of applications, particularly
> those that make assumptions about glibc internals (note that this is
> not the first time that a new version of glibc has broken Java).
>
> By setting that environment variable you tell the system to use an
> older version of the glibc environment for anything you run.
>
> In addition to breaking Java NPTL also broke wine (since fixed) and
> the Intel compilers.
Date: Sun, 18 May 2003 16:27:05 GMT
Message-ID: <3EC7B5F9.1020306_at_rogers.com>
Gerald Henriksen wrote:
> On Fri, 16 May 2003 21:12:04 GMT, Tim <nocomment_at_rogers.com> wrote:
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>>>Try setting LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5 before you run the installer. >>> >>>bye, Jan. >> >>Thanks, it seems to be working, at least so far. Can you give me a >>couple sentence explanation of what the problem was?
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> Red Hat 9 uses glibc 2.3 with the new thread system (NPTL - native
> posix thread library), which is supposed to improve performance. The
> new thread model breaks a small number of applications, particularly
> those that make assumptions about glibc internals (note that this is
> not the first time that a new version of glibc has broken Java).
>
> By setting that environment variable you tell the system to use an
> older version of the glibc environment for anything you run.
>
> In addition to breaking Java NPTL also broke wine (since fixed) and
> the Intel compilers.