9iR2 on RH 7.2 - runInstaller segmentation fault

From: John Williamson <jgwilliamson_at_wcsnet.co.uk>
Date: 4 Sep 2002 13:35:58 -0700
Message-ID: <dd43b9d4.0209041235.36a034cc@posting.google.com>

Hi,

I am trying to install an Oracle 9i Release 2 database on a PIII PC with 512MB RAM running vanilla Redhat 7.2 professional. However I cannot even get the runInstaller to start as it quits with a segmentation fault.

(I have already installed 9i R1 with no problems on the same machine)

I suspect I may have an incompatibility with the glibc libraries that come with RH7.2.

Can anyone confirm this, and hopefully point me in the direction of a fix or workaround. (Full details of my server config at the end....)

Your input will be much appreciated.

Regards

John

Here comes the stuff!!

checksegv runInstaller

Segmentation fault Register dump:

EAX: 00000001 EBX: 4015dc90 ECX: 00000000 EDX: 00000000 ESI: 40015a24 EDI: bffff844 EBP: bffff7d8 ESP: bffff7bc

EIP: 0804ad80 EFLAGS: 00010283

CS: 0023 DS: 002b ES: 002b FS: 0000 GS: 0000 SS: 002b

Trap: 0000000e Error: 00000006 OldMask: 00000000 ESP/signal: bffff7bc CR2: 00000001

Backtrace:
./runInstaller(strftime+0x21c0)[0x804ad80]
/lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0x8e)[0x4004a1f6]
./runInstaller(readdir+0x51)[0x8048df1]

ldd runInstaller

	libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x40029000)
	/lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000)

sysctl -a|grep kernel

kernel.prof_pid = -1
kernel.overflowgid = 65534
kernel.overflowuid = 65534
kernel.random.uuid = 417c4791-678b-4524-ace3-09248a200651
kernel.random.boot_id = c1a6bdc2-ede9-4548-ad89-8b985dae8f98
kernel.random.write_wakeup_threshold = 128
kernel.random.read_wakeup_threshold = 8
kernel.random.entropy_avail = 0
kernel.random.poolsize = 512
kernel.threads-max = 4095
kernel.cad_pid = 1
kernel.sysrq = 0
kernel.sem = 250	32000	100	128
kernel.msgmnb = 16384
kernel.msgmni = 16
kernel.msgmax = 8192
kernel.shmmni = 4096
kernel.shmall = 2097152
kernel.shmmax = 2147483648
kernel.rtsig-max = 1024
kernel.rtsig-nr = 6
kernel.acct = 4	2	30
kernel.hotplug = /sbin/hotplug
kernel.modprobe = /sbin/modprobe
kernel.printk = 3	4	1	7
kernel.ctrl-alt-del = 0
kernel.real-root-dev = 256
kernel.cap-bound = -257
kernel.core_uses_pid = 0
kernel.panic = 0
kernel.domainname = (none)
kernel.hostname = fred
kernel.version = #1 Thu Sep 6 17:21:28 EDT 2001
kernel.osrelease = 2.4.7-10
kernel.ostype = Linux

rpm -q kernel

kernel-2.4.7-10

rpm -q glibc

glibc-2.2.4-13

rpm -q gcc

gcc-2.96-98

cat /proc/meminfo

total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached: Mem: 525713408 344481792 181231616 1261568 78110720 92880896

Swap: 805163008        0 805163008
MemTotal:       513392 kB
MemFree:        176984 kB
MemShared:        1232 kB
Buffers:         76280 kB
Cached:          90704 kB
SwapCached:          0 kB
Active:          19128 kB
Inact_dirty:    149088 kB
Inact_clean:         0 kB
Inact_target:     1064 kB
HighTotal:           0 kB
HighFree:            0 kB
LowTotal:       513392 kB
LowFree:        176984 kB
SwapTotal:      786292 kB
SwapFree:       786292 kB

NrSwapPages: 196573 pages

java -version (/usr/java/jdk1.3)

java version "1.3.0"
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.3.0) Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.3.0, mixed mode) Received on Wed Sep 04 2002 - 15:35:58 CDT