Install Oracle 9i on Red hat linux enterprise 5 error

[Z.K.]

We are installing Oracle 9.2.04 on Linux.
We set the environment as follows:
　　export BASH_ENV=$HOME/.bashrc
　　Oracle_HOME=/Oracle/product/9.0.1; export Oracle_HOME
　　Oracle_SID=Oracle; export Oracle_SID
　　Oracle_TERM=xterm; export Oracle_TERM
　　TNS_ADMIN=/home/Oracle/config/9.0.1; export TNS_ADMIN
　　NLS_LANG=american_america.ZHS16GBK; export NLS_LANG
　　ORA_NLS33=$Oracle_HOME/ocommon/nls/admin/data; export ORA_NLS33
　　LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$Oracle_HOME/lib;export LD_LIBRARY_PATH
　　PATH=$PATH:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/etc:/opt/bin:
　　/usr/ccs/bin:/usr/openwin
　　PATH=$PATH:/opt/local/bin:/opt/NSCPnav/bin:$Oracle_HOME/bin
　　PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/samba/bin:/usr/ucb:
　　export PATH
　　CLASSPATH=$Oracle_HOME/JRE:$Oracle_HOME/jlib:
　　$Oracle_HOME/rdbms/jlib
　　CLASSPATH=$CLASSPATH:$Oracle_HOME/network/jlib
　　TMPDIR=/tmp;export TMPDIR
　　umask 022


After setting the environment, we did:
[Oracle@localhost Disk1]# ./runInstaller &
and got an missing file problem(missing file libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2).
Then we did:
[Oracle@localhost lib]# ln -sf libstdc++.so.6.0.8 libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2

After that, the missing file problem is settled.
But when we execute runInstaller again, the program hang at :
Initializing Java Virtual Machine from /tmp/OraInstall2007-06-28_09-36-35AM/jre/bin/java. Please wait...

With no other error messages.
What should we do next?

[Heironimus]

Different versions of libstdc++ are not binary compatible. You probably need to install compat-libstdc++-296 to get the right version of the shared library.

Even with that I'm not sure if Oracle 9i will really work on RHEL5. It was easy on 2.1 but got much more difficult on later releases.

[Z.K.]

Thanks for your reply!
I'll have a try again.

[Jeeshan]

try to update your libstdc++-libc rpm

[Hemmetter]

Hi Z.K.,

install that compat-* library rpm:


# ll /usr/lib/libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 30 Feb 5 14:09 /usr/lib/libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2 -> libstdc++-2-libc6.1-1-2.9.0.so

# rpm -qf /usr/lib/libstdc++-2-libc6.1-1-2.9.0.so
compat-libstdc++-7.3-2.96.128


rgds
HGH

[Don Vanco - Linux Ninja]

FWIW - in 10g there are scripts that will run a pre-install package check. Not sure if they're present in 9i tho....

That being said - the Oracle docs are pretty clear on these requirements too ;)

One site I find really useful:
http://www.idevelopment.info/

....he pretty much takes the Oracle docs, removes all the double- and triple-speak, and makes it so humans can understand the installation in a concise manner.

Good luck!
DV-LN

[Z.K.]

Thank you all.
Still hang there.
I'll try to install Oracle10g instead to see if I can make it this time.
The site D.V. supplied is quite good.
Thanks!

[Don Vanco - Linux Ninja]

I'm surprised that just installing the "Legacy Application Support" package group didn't resolve your issue. If you can run 10g, that's great - but it won't change the reliance on that package group.

Did you try:
up2date -i "@ Legacy Application Support"

?

Don

[Don Vanco - Linux Ninja]

Sorry - I spaced that you are on RHEL 5 - it's
yum groupinstall

...not sure of the group name - you may have to list to see.....
yum grouplist

Don

[emha_1]

if you are current with libraries, look for log files in /tmp/OraInstall* and $ORACLE_HOME/OraInventory and check what errors they reports. I suppose there will be a java exception (oracle install packages typicaly has such kind of problems...). if so, try to change JRE pointer in oraparam.ini from oracle's JRE to the one you have installed on the system.


emha.

[Don Vanco - Linux Ninja]

emha -

Is that a typical issue?

Red Hat, by default, does not install JAVA - you have to pull it from the supplemental or yum it in. I've always used Oracle's default install w/o issue - but then I'm only doing a couple installs a year...

DV

[emha_1]

from my experience yes.

with couple of recent months I installed on RHEL4 DBs 9201+patch9208, 10201 - no one worked with suplied JRE.

the same experience I have from Tru64 environment...


emha.