Oracle AS 10.1.2.0.2 wrongly recognizes RHEL4 as RHEL3

Hello,

I'm trying to install Oracle AS 10.1.2.0.2 on a RedHat Enterprise Linux 4 server (compiled locally
from RedHat sources) but it keeps recognizing the system as RHEL 3 and therefore looks for
packages which I can't supply.

Here are what I think to be the relevant parts from the log:

• Product-specific Prerequisite Checks Page*** Entry point:oracle.iappserver.iapptop_Core Starting Prerequisite checks : Mon May 29 12:34:09 EST 2006 Checking CertifiedVersions This is a prerequisite condition to test whether the Oracle software is certified on the current O/S or not. Expected result: One of redhat-2.1,redhat-3,redhat-4,SuSE-9,SuSE-8,UnitedLinux-1.0 Actual Result: redhat-3 Check complete. The overall result of this check is: Passed

Also I tried to run one of the commands I found through strace(1) which is:
% /bin/rpm -qf /etc/redhat-release --qf "%{VERSION}\n" and its output is:
4AS

Also here is the content of /etc/redhat-release (which at least some of the installations
steps seem to access):
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 4 (Nahant Update 3)

And finally, the output of "uname -a":
Linux bpel 2.6.9-34.EL.OIE1smp #1 SMP Wed Mar 8 15:08:49 EST 2006 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

The only difference between this machine and another one on which runInstall works
properly is that "uname -r" gives here:
2.6.9-34.EL.OIE1smp

while on the working system it gives:
2.6.9-11.ELsmp

(i.e. the broken system has "OIE1" in front of the "smp").

What's the problem and what can I do to fix this? I need to finish configuring this system by the end
of the week.

Thanks,

--Amos Received on Sun May 28 2006 - 22:40:16 CDT