On Fri, 12 Nov 1999, Ugo Cei wrote:
> I don't think this is off-topic at all.
Well, with that encouragement...
I've got a fresh install of Red Hat 6.1 on a P2-300 w/ 160MB and
JRE (actually we used the JRE for the install, not the JDK) 1.1.7v3. The
big box is waiting for us to get the procedure straight.
The first problem was that the install program died complaining
that it couldn't create the virtual machine. Apparently a script runs a
program that runs a script that starts a Java program, and the first
program died (is this the java -native problem?). So we were able to
continue by doing what the first script did and running the second script
by hand.
Then, dbassist failed to launch from the install routine with the
error "not enough arguments". When we tried to run it, it simply died,
which we traced to the fact that all the tools use java -native which does
nothing if native threads aren't installed (why not default to green?).
With suitable editing to .java_wrapper and jre, we got it to run using
green threads.
So we configured the instance with dbassist, generated shell
scripts to build the instance, and ran them. We confirmed that we could
connect using the strangely named svrmgrl (Linux?) and "connect internal".
HOWEVER, we are unable to configure Net8. The tools like
"netasst" and others (I've forgetten the others we tried) die with an
"Unable to load library" error. The library in question (libnjni8.so) is
distributed by Oracle (see $ORACLE_HOME/lib), but with size 0 (both the
installed version and the version in the JAR on the CD). The directory is
in our LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so I suspect it's just the "size 0" issue.
This means that we can't connect to the instance other than
through "connect internal", which is pretty useless. We took a swing at
configuring a listener.ora by hand, but can't get past an error about "no
valid addresses specified"...
So my question is, what's going on? Can I guess from the name
that the library in question relates to JNI for Native threads
(lib*njni*)? If so, should we have a Blackdown version of this library
loaded before an Oracle version? Or is this otherwise related to our
inability to run with native threads?
And on a related note, it would sure be nice to have a version of
the JDK with native threads that works with the glibc distributed with Red
Hat 6.1 (do I remember right 2.1.2?). I won't ask when it's coming, I'll
just say that it would sure be nice.
Aaron
> I did it just yesterday, but I downloaded and installed JRE 1.1.6v5 as
> suggested by Oracle in its installation instructions. The only problem I
> had was with a message form dbassist telling me I had no support for
> national languages. I Ignored it and it created the database. Since then
> I just had the time to test that the instance is up and running.
> >
> > Anyone had success installing Oracle 8i on Linux? I'm fighting
> > some problems with the configuration tools, which are all Java-based.
>
> This is on a RH 6.0 system with 256MB RAM + 256MB of swap.
>
> Ugo
>
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