Installing Oracle on Fedora 8
Apparently somebody who reads blogs regularly found one that said it Fedora 8 bombed because he couldn’t install oracle on it. So I took on the challenge.
I have to say installing Fedora 8 was the most difficult part of the challenge. C’mon guys, after giving us Fedora 1,2,3,4,5,6 and 7, you give us this beautiful shiny new release, complete with a 2.6.23 kernel and you couldn’t write a half-decent bug-free installer? I had to abandon the upgrade from Fedora 7 on my laptop and resort to a full new install. Of course I backed up my home dir and stuff so I could quickly get back my working configs and settings and my laptop is back in business.. but I digress.
xcb_xlib.c:50: xcb_xlib_unlock: Assertion 'c->xlib.lock' failed.
Thats the problem when you try to run the oracle installer on Fedora 8. Apparently its a bug with either Java or with the X libraries or just the way they interact, with blame being shifted around. See this wonderful thread: http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6532373
The workaround given is to patch the libmawt.so with sed (!). The link above has all the gory details, but how do you do it for the oracle installer? The jre is compressed and there is no libmawt.so or any other .so to be found..
Here’s how in a nutshell (this was on Fedora 8 x86_64 but I see no reason why it would not work on i386):
- Install the required packages as for Fedora 7
- Set up the kernel prerequisites etc. as for Fedora 7
- Edit
/etc/redhat-releaseto readredhat-4 - Startup the installer. it will fail with the famous
xcb_xlib.c:50: xcb_xlib_unlock: Assertion `c->xlib.lock' failed. - Now go to the
/tmpdirectory and find theOraInstallXXXXdirectory that the installer left behind when it failed - Rename it to
jreunder/tmp(cd /tmp; mv OraInstallXXXX jre) - Now run this:
cd /tmp/jre/jre/1.4.2/lib/i386; sed -i 's/XINERAMA/FAKEEXTN/g' libawt.so(yes, itslibawt.soin this jre, notlibmawt.so, it’s not a typo) - Go back to oracle software directory
- Now run the installer again with the ‘patched’ jre that you just set up:
./runInstaller -jreLoc /tmp/jre/jre/1.4.2/
And bingo! the installer will start and you can install oracle as usual. Enjoy!
(You could also just run the installer under a different jre by changing the argument to -jreLoc, but I couldn’t find one that worked and the installer tends to be fussy, so its easiest to just stick with the oracle supplied version.)
–Raj.
November 15th, 2007 at 10:16 am
I found it slightly different. After renaming to jre go here:
cd /tmp/jre/jdk/jre/lib/i386/xawt
then
sed -i ’s/XINERAMA/FAKEEXTN/g’ libmawt.so
then
runInstaller -jerLoc /tmp/jre/jdk/jre
That worked for me and Oracle 11.1.0.6 is running sweet on Fedora 8
November 15th, 2007 at 10:45 am
Oh and P.S:
After Oracle has installed you need to sed the libmawt.so file here too:
cd /u01/app/oracle/product/11.1.0/db_1/jdk/jre/lib/i386/xawt
Also, above, the last line should read
runInstaller -jreLoc /tmp/jre/jdk/jre
February 13th, 2008 at 4:51 pm
There is other solution: beside all required by Oracle Installer packages you should also install package named libXp and start installer normally (without any arguments).
It worked for fedora 8 and both Oracle 10gR2 and 11g on my machines.
(Sorry, I don’t remember the source of this solution - it’s not mine)
Regards
March 5th, 2008 at 2:39 pm
You could try ./runInstaller -jreLoc /usr/lib/jvm/jre after implementing groups and users.
I think it is much easier if this command work
April 13th, 2008 at 4:05 pm
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