Re: For those who have installed 9i on RedHat EL4

On May 31, 2005, at 11:08 PM, Paul Drake wrote:

> "Relink gcc so that the older gcc will be used during the Oracle
> installation (see Oracle Note:252217.1 for more information):

I did that, but that's not the problem. I think what got us was this bugzilla bug:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=101603

It's been bouncing around for two years and they just recently (like a couple of weeks ago) released a bunch of RPMs to fix the problem:

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2005-147.html

Basically, when you set LD_ASSUME_KERNEL, as we have to do to install 9i, and you have an older glibc installed, which we also have, rpm can corrupt it's database. I didn't read the entire bug report (it's very long with two year's worth of conversation) but I think it's a semi-random thing - things will work for a while and then one day you update something and your rpm database goes kaput.

What I haven't found yet is how to fix it, or if it is even possible to fix it. I think we might have to actually reinstall the system to get it back in working order. Grumble.

janine

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