Hi,

I also spent a lot of time with this but without success. Then I installed on debian and copied the
binaries. This works at least for FreeBSD. But on NetBSD, when creating a database I got something
like 'invalid file descriptor'. Then I copied a complete database. The instance can you start up
(after resizing shared memory parameters in the kernel), but when Oracle tries to mount the database
it ends up with the same invalid file descriptor, function not implemented.
I think, that oracle goes over the linux proc file system where netbsd not all functions implemented.


Torsten Borchert



On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 06:00:09AM +0930, Berndt Josef Wulf wrote:
> G'day,
> 
> I'd a go at installing oracle8i on a NetBSD-1.5V-i386 system resulting
> in the following error:
> 
> bash-2.04$ Initializing Java Virtual Machine from
> ../stage/Components/oracle.swd.jre/1.1.8/1/DataFiles/Expanded/linux/bin/jre.
> Please wait...
> ldt_clear: modify_ldt: Function not implemented
> ldt_setup: modify_ldt: Function not implemented

Oh, good God -- what's Oracle's JRE doing that it needs to whack the LDT?

ISTR someone (Todd?) having gotten Oracle 8i to run okay by forcing it to
run with our native 1.1.8 JRE.  You might want to try that (and if it
works, please document how you did it!).

Thor