From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT 5.0) Description of problem: Ok so I have been watching bug 18391 and some others concerning Oracle 8i products on Red Hat 7.x. Oracle has just announced, June 1, 2001, that Oracle 9i is available. Oracle has certified 9i for SuSe 7.1, Kernel 2.4.4, glibc 2.2 and binutils 2.10. (See http://technet.oracle.com/docs/products/oracle9i/pdf/9i_lin_relnotes.pdf page 3, and http://otn.oracle.com/software/products/oracle9i/content.html ) I find some of this certification stuff humorous. I don't think SuSe will support you if you compile your own kernel. Morover, I don't recall SuSe 7.1 coming with kernel 2.4.4 out of the box. I know enough ranting. :) I am making a nice little kickstart file to create Red Hat 7.1 platforms for Oracle. I am reading the Oracle release notes and install notes, etc. I am obtaining all the RPMs to bring the rh71 box set current. I querried the RPMs listed on the stock rh71: binutils 2.10.91.02.2-3; make 3.79.1-5; kernel 2.4.2-2; glibc 2.2.2-10. The only point Oracle could find rh71 lacking is in the kernel version. I see via errata http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2001-084.html that a new kernel has been released for rh71. For the life of me I can't tell what 2.4.3-12 means. Is this the 2.4.4 kernel then? Or is Red Hat preparing a 2.4.4 RPM for 7.1 that will meet Oracle's requirements? And what's the point with 2.4.4 when the 2.4.6 kernel has been released? Finally, can anyone point me to a document decipering what the 3-12 means in 2.4? I am sure it has to do with patching the kernel, but I don't know Red Hat's specific naming system. My hat's off to Oracle to move on to glibc 2.2. I just wish it was sooner that now. How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.. 2. 3. Additional info:
I don't know what exact Oracle requirements are. I believe it is just package versions Oracle has been tested with. So the best thing you can do is to test it out and see if it works. Red Hat kernels are heavily patched, so you really cannot compare Linus versions with Red Hat version. 2.4.3-12 means the kernel is based on 2.4.3-acN but there are many patches which are present in 2.4.4 too. As for why there is no 2.4.6 errata for 7.1 - the reason is simple. We do a lot of kernel testing which takes some time and only if kernel passes all the tests it is released (otherwise the bugs are fixed and the process is repeated). There is a 2.4.6-2 kernel in rawhide I believe, but as with anything in rawhide, you're on your own with it. Note that I don't know what exact JVM Oracle 9i uses, if it is not fixed for floating pthread stacks, then you might want to use LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5 environment variable.