Bug 1625507

Summary:	Removal of libpthread_nonshared.a breaks installation of Oracle Database
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Carlos O'Donell <codonell>
Component:	glibc	Assignee:	Carlos O'Donell <codonell>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	29	CC:	aoliva, arjun.is, asa.j.welle, codonell, dj, fweimer, law, mfabian, pfrankli, rth, siddhesh
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Last Closed:	2018-11-07 08:06:46 UTC	Type:	Bug
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Description Carlos O'Donell 2018-09-05 05:40:17 UTC

The relinking step as part of the Oracle Database installation assumes that a libpthread_nonshared.a library exists.  Apparently, it doesn't use -lpthread as it should, and instead links against the individual files expected to be in the libpthread linker script.

We should add a workaround to F29 for this by including an empty libpthread_nonshared.a in a compat subpackage.

Failure during Oracle install looks like this:
/usr/bin/make -f ins_rdbms.mk client_sharedlib ORACLE_HOME=/ora/db/
/ora/db/bin/genclntsh
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find /usr/lib64/libpthread_nonshared.a
genclntsh: Failed to link libclntshcore.so.12.1

This affects Oracle 12cR2.

Comment 1 Carlos O'Donell 2018-09-05 07:34:41 UTC

F29 build with fix (glibc-2.28-10.fc29):
https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=29494174

Rawhide build with fix (glibc-2.28.9000-5.fc30):
https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=29494170

Comment 2 Carlos O'Donell 2018-09-05 07:35:35 UTC

The fix is to provide a compat-libpthread-nonshared subpackage with the right *.a in the right place. This way Oracle install instructions can say to just install this package.

Comment 3 Asa Welle 2018-11-03 02:50:46 UTC

Please provide instructions on how I can get this fix. I've added the updates repo and installed "dnf update glibmm24.x86_64", but that didn't work. Where is it bundled? Need it to install the Oracle database. Thank you!

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2018-11-03 07:01:16 UTC

glibc-2.28-17.fc29 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 29. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-0e5874aba9

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2018-11-04 06:38:38 UTC

glibc-2.28-17.fc29 has been pushed to the Fedora 29 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for
instructions on how to install test updates.
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-0e5874aba9

Comment 6 Asa Welle 2018-11-04 13:41:46 UTC

That worked for me. Oracle Database installed now.

Comment 7 Florian Weimer 2018-11-04 13:55:44 UTC

(In reply to Asa Welle from comment #6)
> That worked for me. Oracle Database installed now.

Great.  Thank you so much for testing Oracle Database on Fedora.  We need more such third-party software testing.

Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2018-11-07 02:40:54 UTC

glibc-2.28-17.fc29 has been pushed to the Fedora 29 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.