Installing Oracle Apps 11.5.5: rapidwiz problem

Question

Hi,
I am trying to install Oracle Applications 11.5.5 on Linux Red Hat 7.1. I know this is not supported but my client wants 11.5.5 and the only Red Hat O/S it is certified to run on is 7.1
I have the following problem: rapidwiz calls runWizard.sh, which in turn calls the jre. At this point, it just hangs. No window, nothing. My X-Windows server is up, and if I run xclock it displays fine on my session.
I took the pre-install steps exactly as Oracle wants in the documentation:
- I have copied all the CDs onto the file system, using exactly the directory structure wanted by rapidwiz, e.g. ../redCD/Disk1/stage/rapidwiz, ../ora8i/Disk1, ../oraiAS/disk1 etc etc
- I have installed the JDK (j2sdk 1.3.1 v19)
- I run the program as follows: ksh stage11i/redCD/Disk1/stage/rapidwiz/rapidwiz
Then I get a message saying rapidwiz has started, and nothing else happens after that. If I run ps -aef, I can see the process is running (2 processes actually: one for runWizard.sh, and one that has been spawned by runWizard.sh: /stage11i/redCD/Disk1/stage/rapidwiz/jre/Linux/1.1.8/bin/Linux/native_threads/jre -classpath
/stage11i/redCD/Disk1/stage/rapidwiz/jlib/RapidWiz.jar: ..../rt.jar:..../i18n.jar:..../ewt-3_3_6.jar:..../share-1_0_8.jar:..../jnls.jar:..../ACC.JAR:..../help-3_1_8.jar:..../ice-4_06_6.jar:..../swingall-1_1_1.jar:..../netcfg.jar:....../aconfig.zip:...../xmlparserv2.zip RIWizard
but I can't see the window that rapidwiz is supposed to have launched.
My version of rapidwiz is 11.5.5.08, which is the one that came in the Oracle Apps 11.5.5 CD.
I suspect it is a Java issue, but am not sure. I found nothing on metalink or other forums. Anybody else has experienced a similar problem?
Thanks people
Michel

Answer 1

Hi,
Yes runWizard.sh points to the correct path - it calls the jre, but it is the jre that hangs
Now I have found out why.... Having tried to run the same rapidwiz on a different version of Linux, I got a glibc2 error, so what I did was run thew following on my Red Hat 7.1:
$ export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5
$ cd /usr/i386-glibc21-linux/bin
$ ./i386-glibc21-linux-env.sh
And now rapidwiz works!
Thanks for looking at the problem
Michel