Problems with Oracle on dual opteron

[Doug Stewart]

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Howdy all:
I've tried this message over on the RHEL list and met with limited
success, so I figured I'd issue a last-ditch appeal over here.

I'm having beaucoup problems installing Oracle 9i on a dual Opteron box
we bought from Penguin.  They all appear to be related to Java/JRE problems.

Here's the rundown:
I downloaded the CPIO versions of the Oracle install media and plunked
em in a directory.  This allowed me to edit the
Disk1/install/linux/oraparams.ini and point it to the IBMJava2-JRE
location.  I was able to partially install using the Oracle Universal
Installer then (it threw a bunch of make errors, but it let me go the
whole way through).

However, when I try to apply the updated OUI installer, it just hangs.
If I edit the appropriate oraparams.ini file and point it to either the
JRE that Oracle installed or a version of 1.3.1 that I dl'ed from Sun, I
get the dreaded

Unable to load native library:
/export/ultramagnus1/app/oracle/jre/1.3.1/lib/i386/libjava.so: symbol
__libc_wait, version GLIBC_2.0 not defined in file libc.so.6 with link
time reference

And don't tell me about the libcwait.so patch. I've tried to "apply" it
countless times and all it does is attempt to hose my system. I have to
issue an 'echo "" > /etc/ld.so.preload" in order to make it stop
printing  "error while loading shared libraries: /etc/libcwait.so:
cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory" every time I
try to run anything.

So please, anyone with first-hand knowledge of an Oracle install on
Opteron boxes, help!


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Doug Stewart
Systems Administrator/Web Applications Developer
Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Labs

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