Install 8.1.7 on RedHat 9 hangs after Initializing JVM from ..Please Wait

Question

I am trying to install 8i 8.1.7 on redhat linux 9. when I start the installer I initially got the first error below. I did export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.1. Now the installation starts and I get
---FIRST ERROR---
[oracle@localhost Disk1]$ ./runInstaller
Initializing Java Virtual Machine from ../stage/Components/oracle.swd.jre/1.1.8/1/DataFiles/Expanded/linux/bin/jre. Please wait...
[oracle@localhost Disk1]$ /usr/local/downloads/Oracle8iLinux/Disk1/stage/Components/oracle.swd.jre/1.1.8/1/DataFiles/Expanded/linux/lib/linux/native_threads/libzip.so: symbol errno, version GLIBC_2.0 not defined in file libc.so.6 with link
time reference (libzip.so)
Unable to initialize threads: cannot find class java/lang/Thread
Could not create Java VM
---CURRENT ERROR---
[oracle@localhost Disk1]$ ./runInstaller
Initializing Java Virtual Machine from ../stage/Components/oracle.swd.jre/1.1.8/1/DataFiles/Expanded/linux/bin/jre. Please wait...
and then get back to the $prompt after some time and the welcome screen never comes up.
Whats wrong?

Answer 1

Hi,
Follow the Steps below as I managed to configure and Install it with the help of these steps
1. Things you need before the installation
Before you start installing Oracle, you need to have the following packages:
�     jdk-1.1.8_v3 - Blackdown Linux port of Sun's Java Development Kit
You can find it at www.blackdown.org
�     Red Hat Linux 6.2 compatibility packages
compat-libstdc++-6.2-2.9.0.16
compat-glibc-6.2-2.1.3.2
compat-libs-6.2-3
compat-egcs-6.2-1.1.2.16
You can find these packages on your RedHat CDs, download them from RedHat site, or from some mirror site.
�     glibc-2.1.3-stubs Patch from Oracle.
2. Pre-install actions
2.1 Installing compatibility packages
Install all of the RedHat 6.2 compatibility packages mentioned above by issuing rpm -Uvh package_name, e.g:
# rpm -Uvh /mnt/cdrom/RedHat/RPMS/compat-libs-6.2-3.i386.rpm
2.2 Installing Java development kit
According to jdk documentation, we will install it under /usr/local by issuing e.g.
# tar -xvjf jdk-1.1.8_v3.tar.bz2 -C /usr/local
Note that it is not necessary to add path to the java executables in PATH environment variable, so you can safely keep whatever jdk or jre version you already have.
2.3 User oracle, groups and software mount points
We need to create two groups, oinstall and dba.
The oinstall group will own all the installation files, so user oracle should have the oinstall group as its initial group. We also need one more group, dba, that will have oracle's SYSDBA and SYSOPER privileges granted. User oracle should have the dba group as its supplementary group. Note that all linux users (accounts) that are in group dba will also get these privileges.
# groupadd oinstall
# groupadd dba
# useradd -g oinstall -G dba oracle
# passwd oracle
Create directories in which database files will reside. Oracle recommends OFA - Optimal Flexible Architecture (see oracle installation guide), but in this example everything will be installed under /home/oracle:
# mkdir /home/oracle/product
# cd /home/oracle/product
# mkdir 8.1.7
# chown -R oracle.oinstall /home/oracle/*
2.4 Setting the environment for oracle account
We should now login as user oracle and put the following lines at the end of .bash_profile:
export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5
source /usr/i386-glibc21-linux/bin/i386-glibc21-linux-env.sh
export ORACLE_BASE=/home/oracle
export ORACLE_HOME=$ORACLE_BASE/product/8.1.7
export ORA_NLS33=$ORACLE_HOME/ocommon/nls/admin/data
export PATH=$PATH:$ORACLE_HOME/bin
unset LANG
First two lines modify your environment so that gcc and ld look for glibc 2.1.3 compatibility headers and libraries.
The unset LANG line is there because if LANG is set, java is known to generate JNLS Exceptions.
Listing of valid Oracle NLS Data parameters including supported languages, territories and storage character sets can be found here.
The .bash_profile should now be executed in order to initialize these variables:
$ source /home/oracle/.bash_profile
or we can just log off and than back on as user oracle.
If you use some shell other than bash (tcsh, sh, ...) all of those variables should be set according to syntax of your shell and put in script that automatically executes at user login.