OS Authentication Connection Errors

Question

I installed SQL Developer 1.5.1 and Java 6 last week. I setup some database connections using login/password and others using OS Authentication. Everything was working great. Overnight some automatic updates were pushed out to the machine. The next day, when trying to use SQL Developer all of the connections using OS Authentication were failing. If I try to open one of the OS Authentication connections, the application closes abruptly. The username/password connections are still working fine.
I suspect it might be a Java issue. In the sqldeveloper/bin directory I get a log file each time the application crashes. Some highlights from the log file:
"An unexpected error has been detected by Java Runtime Environment:
EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION (oxc0000005) at pc=0x61d3e2a0, pid=3144, tid=960"
Some thread information follows, concluding with:
"compacting perm gen total 42752K, 99% used
No shared spaces configured"
Looking at the Environment Variables in the log, everything appears to still be pointing correctly to the Java jdk1.6 directory.
Has anybody else encountered this? Any suggestions would be appreciated!
Thanks,
Matt

Answer 1

Problem resolved.
I reinstalled the Oracle 11g client. At that point I started getting 'No ocijdbc10 in java.library.path'.
I had to add various jar files to my classpath to resolve that issue, which I found here:
no ocijdbc10 in java.library.path
Then I started getting 'ocijdbc11.dll could not find dependent libraries'. In order to resolve that I had to add ORACLE_HOME/bin to my PATH.
I'm not sure what changed that made all of this necessary, but everything is working fine again.
Edited by: mattph on Jul 7, 2009 10:51 AM