Re: OUI and >30 character kernel names

On Mon, 29 Oct 2007 12:04:00 -0400, Brian Tkatch <N/A> wrote:

>Oracle 9.2
>
>While trying to install the Oracle client on a server, the team got an
>error. Searching for this error on google found the following where
>someone hit the same error:
><URL:http://kevinclosson.wordpress.com/2007/04/18/dont-install-oracle-on-linux-servers-with-long-kernel-names/>.
>
>Basically, if the kernel name has more than 30 characters, the OUI
>will crash. We're using both SLES8 and SLES9 (SUSE installs). On the
>SLES 8 servers we're fine: $ uname -r |wc
> 1 1 19
>as it only has 18 chars, and indeed the OUI worked there. The failing
>server is SLES9: $ uname -r | wc
> 1 1 43
>and the 42 character kenel name is ostensibly causing the issue.
>
>Is this a known issue? Is there a workaround other than recompiling
>the kernel?
>
>B.

Oops, silly me, relying on a web page an not giving the actual error:

• glibc detected *** free(): invalid next size (normal): 0x0806fbd0 ***
• glibc detected *** free(): invalid next size (normal): 0x0806fd40 ***

B. Received on Mon Oct 29 2007 - 11:05:37 CDT