Glibc problem with Oracle software

[Troy Campano]

Oh I thought you were installing the database software.
I was able to get a metalink account for free.

I just signed up for a regular account so that I could download oracle
software and that account also worked for metalink.


thanks!

~ Troy Campano ~

On Mon, 2004-01-26 at 21:04, Charlene wrote:
> But I can't get an account on metalink.oracle.com.  And I'm installing
> the Oracle Developer Suite.
> 
> Charlene
> 
> troycampano at yahoo.com wrote:
> > Oracle 9i on Fedora was a pain.
> > I ended up reinstall fedora to have a fresh system and then followed
> > this web site word for word:
> > http://www.oracle-base.com/articles/9i/Oracle9iInstallationOnFedora1.php
> > 
> > And then I was able to get it running.
> > This was the best Oracle/Fedora site I found.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > thanks!
> > 
> > ~ Troy Campano ~
> > 
> > On Mon, 2004-01-26 at 20:51, Charlene wrote:
> >   
> > > I got my other problem solved about the shared libraries.  Now I have an 
> > > error:
> > > 
> > > symbol __libc_wait, version GLIBC_2.0 not defined in file libc.so.6 with 
> > > link time reference.
> > > 
> > > I found 3 solutions, 2 of which appear to need a paid licence to either 
> > > Red Hat or Oracle to get the patch.  The third solution creates a file 
> > > called libcwait.c.
> > > 
> > > This is the explaination 
> > > (http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2003-November/msg06994.html)
> > > 
> > > At ftp://people.redhat.com/drepper/libcwait.c you find a file which you 
> > > can compile with
> > >  gcc -shared -o libcwait.so -fpic -O2 libcwait.c
> > > to get a DSO which you then can preload with
> > >  LD_PRELOAD=/path/to/libcwait.so java ARGS....
> > > 
> > > I don't understand the preload.
> > > 
> > > Charlene
> > > 
> > > 
> > >     
> > 
> >