stem, run e.g. the following command: $ file /sbin/init /sbin/init: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), for GNU/Linux 2.2.5, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), not stripped
The Oracle installer runInstaller hangs at: Installing Java Runtime Environment... Link pending... Copying README... This problems comes up only on RH 9. You probably forgot to set the environment variable LD_ASSUME_KERNEL to 2.4.1.
To rectify this problem, run the following command and restart runInstaller: oracle$ export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.1 For more information on this issue, see Red Hat 9.
Can''''t find init file for Database "SID". I saw this error only with Oracle 9i R2 (9.2.0) when It tried to start the database with dbstart.
I copied the init file for my SID "test" from /opt/oracle/admin/test/pfile to $ORACLE_HOME/dbs to get dbstart and dbshut working: cp /opt/oracle/admin/test/pfile/inittest.ora.642002224936 $ORACLE_HOME/dbs/inittest.ora
"Error in setting permissions of file/directory /opt/oracle/jre/1.1.8/bin/i686/native_threads/.extract_args" This happens if you didn''''t burn your CD correctly. Either you burn your CD again to include dot files or you copy the .extract_args file from your downloaded image to where runInstaller complains it is missing.
"jre was not found in /tmp/OraInstall/jre/bin/i586/green_threads/jre" You are probably running runInstaller on a 586 machine, or your AMD CPU gets recognized as 586 (e.g. AMD K6-III-400). You can check your machine (hardware) type by executing "uname -m". If you are not running on a 586 or on a AMD machine, try to link jre to java and see if this solves your problem.
To rectify the problem with the 586 machine or with the AMD CPU, create a link for lib and bin from i586 to i686 and make the i686 directories read only. For example:
../jre/bin/i386/native_threads/java: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory You probably forgot to install the compat-libstdc++ RPM which is a package for "Standard C++ libraries for Red Hat Linux 6.2 backwards compatibility". To rectify this problem, install the compat-libstdc++ RPM. For example on Red Hat 9: rpm -ivh compat-libstdc++-7.3-2.96.118.i386.rpm See also Development Packages for more information.
/opt/oracle/jre/1.1.8/bin/../lib/i686/green_threads/libzip.so: symbol errno, version GLIBC_2.0 not defined in file libc.so.6 with link time reference (libzip.so) Unable to initialize threads: cannot find class java/lang/Thread Could not create Java VM I experienced this problem when I was running the Database Configuration Assistant dbca on Red Hat 9 without setting the LD_ASSUME_KERNEL environment variable.
To rectify this problem, run the following command on Red Hat 9 and restart dbca: oracle$ export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.1 For more information on this issue, see Red Hat 9.
Other Errors You might want to check out the Oracle on Linux Discussion Forum.
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