10g OUI Crashes on SLES9 sp2

Question

Hi,
I've read through here hoping to find someone else that has seen this strangeness, but no such luck.
I have setup SLES9 sp2 on an HP DL585 (ProLiant) and then started the process of installing Oracle 10g EE. I followed all the instructions for setup, such as checking the rpm versions, kernel parameters, and oracle user setup.
When I start the installer, via the command: ./runInstaller
it gets a segmentation violation in the program: ./install/.oui
Here's some detailed output (below). As you can see from the gdb backtrace, it is crashing in a string function in libc, although I'm not clean on why it picked that up from /lib/tls
Has anyone seen this problem or have any clues about how I can diagnose it?
Thanks,
Brian
oracle@suselinux:~/install/database> ./runInstaller
Starting Oracle Universal Installer...
Checking installer requirements...
Checking operating system version: must be redhat-3, SuSE-9, redhat-4, UnitedLin
ux-1.0, asianux-1 or asianux-2
Passed
All installer requirements met.
./runInstaller: line 63: 12972 Segmentation fault $CMDDIR/install/.oui -one
click
oracle@suselinux:~/install/database> gdb ./install/.oui
GNU gdb 6.3
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GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are
welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions.
Type "show copying" to see the conditions.
There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "x86_64-suse-linux"...Using host libthread_db library
"/lib64/tls/libthread_db.so.1".
(gdb) r
Starting program: /opt/oracle/install/database/install/.oui
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
[New Thread 1433108608 (LWP 12956)]
Starting Oracle Universal Installer...
Checking installer requirements...
Checking operating system version: must be redhat-3, SuSE-9, redhat-4, UnitedLin
ux-1.0, asianux-1 or asianux-2
Passed
All installer requirements met.
Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
[Switching to Thread 1433108608 (LWP 12956)]
0x555ce70d in ____strtol_l_internal () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6
(gdb) bt
#0 0x555ce70d in ____strtol_l_internal () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6
#1 0x555ce4a6 in __strtol_internal () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6
#2 0x555cbb56 in atoi () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6
#3 0x08055442 in CheckSwap (value=0xffff5a00 "150",
version=0xffff6600 "SuSE-9",
scratchLoc=0x8068838 "/tmp/OraInstall2006-04-12_02-32-58PM")
at prereqchecks.c:1605
#4 0x080574f5 in CheckPrerequisitesForInstall (
paramFileLocation=0xffff9e44 "/opt/oracle/install/database/install/oraparam.
ini", scratchLoc=0x8068838 "/tmp/OraInstall2006-04-12_02-32-58PM", silent=0,
bIgnorePreReqs=0, bRequired=0, buffer=0xffff7f54 "Linux-SuSE-9-required",
optBuffer=0xffff8354 "Linux-SuSE-9-optional", optFlMsg=0xffff8b54 "")
at prereqchecks.c:2958
#5 0x08057cc5 in checkPreReqs (
paramLoc=0xffff9e44 "/opt/oracle/install/database/install/oraparam.ini",
scratchLoc=0x8068838 "/tmp/OraInstall2006-04-12_02-32-58PM",
gsTimeStamp=0x805d3c0 "2006-04-12_02-32-58PM",
gsLogFileName=0x805a884 "/installActions", silent=0,
invPtrLocation=0x805a894 "/etc/oraInst.loc", bExecSysPreReqs=0,
bIgnorePreReqs=0, _bNoConsole=0) at prereqchecks.c:3787
#6 0x0804e488 in main_helper (argc=1, argv=0xffffd644) at runInstaller.c:3944
#7 0x08050768 in main (argc=1, argv=0xffffd644) at runInstaller.c:4882
(gdb)

Answer 1

Got it.
I somehow missed that my swap space never got created during the SuSE install. Once I turned on file system swap, it all worked.
Note to any Oracle employees: Kinda looks like a bug in OUI, huh?
Anyway, isn't it funny how you write something out to the net and then the answer comes to you?
Thanks,
Brian