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Date:      Thu, 24 Sep 1998 15:04:06 -0700
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        Jake Hamby <jake.hamby@jpl.nasa.gov>
Cc:        Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: How can I run glibc Linux binaries (RedHat 5.x) on FreeBSD (CURRENT)? 
Message-ID:  <199809242204.PAA01238@dingo.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 24 Sep 1998 14:34:08 PDT." <360ABACF.52A484E6@jpl.nasa.gov> 

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> Mike Smith wrote:
> > 
> > > I just received my beta copy of Oracle8 for Linux, and was curious to
> > > try it out on our FreeBSD-current box (from about a week after the ELF
> > > transition).  After branding all of the ELF binaries, I discovered that
> > > they required the new libc.so.6, libm.so.6, and ld-linux.so.2 libraries
> > > from GNU libc 2.0.  I FTP'ed them over from my RedHat 5.1 desktop, only
> > > to discover that they immediately dump core.  This problem is not unique
> > > to Oracle, as /bin/ls from RedHat also crashes.  Here's the ktrace:
> > 
> > You need to update to the latest Linux LKM; glibc is using a new
> > dynamic loader and we were forcing the use of the wrong one.
> 
> Thanks for the quick response.  I'm building world right now and I'll
> make sure to rebuild the kernel and LKM as well.  Hopefully Oracle will
> work after this.

Er, no, it won't "work", but you will get past the existing problem.

The 'svrmgl' program SEGVs just after starting oracle when you go to
initialise the database.  Soren is working on this one at the moment.


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