On Sat, 2003-06-07 at 11:51, Jeffrey W Comer wrote: > Do we have anyone on the list who has installed the Oracle database on > a Linux server? I am installing Oracle 9.2 Standard Edition, > software only, on Red Hat 9 and it keeps getting hung. The last few > lines of the log file show - > > Calling action unixActions2.2.0.6.0 createLink > source = /home/oracle/jre/1.1.8/bin/.java_wrapper > destination = /home/oracle/jre/1.1.8/bin/jre > overwriteExistingLink = true > > The file cited in the source line above, .java_wrapper, exists. And I > am doing the install under the oracle uid. This is maybe only the > second step in a lengthy install process. > > There is nothing happening - no disk activity, no CPU, no nothing; no > extra processes are being spawned. I let it run overnight once and > it was in the very same place. I downloaded new images from Oracle > and got the same result. (That was another over-nighter :-( ) > > Any clues or pointers as to where to go from here? What else to try? > How to skip this step? Or fake it? Or make it happen independently? > Anything in the Red Hat setup I should check? Can you try exporting LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5 and then launch the installation process from the command line? # export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5 # <command_used_to_launch_oracle_installation> I think it's a problem related to the new NPTL code in Red Hat 9 kernel and glibc interacting with the Java Runtime Environment. Maybe there's another solution: upgrading to the latest JRE (I think it's 1.4.0_03) and try to convince the Oracle installer to use it.
