Can not install IDS 11.50 on openSolaris platform
A user trying to install the IDS 11.50 demo on OpenSolaris in a VM hit an installer check failing on a missing libcmd.so.1, even though the file existed in /usr/lib. Bypassing the checks with "ids_install -gui -disable-checks" let the install finish, but oninit then failed with "cannot execute binary file". Art Kagel mentioned LD_LIBRARY_PATH, but Marco Greco and Jonathan Leffler pointed to the likely real cause: the wrong platform build (SPARC binaries on an x86 box, or vice versa), suggesting "file $INFORMIXDIR/bin/oninit" to check. The poster never confirmed, so no resolution is recorded.
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Hi All, I've installed the OpenSolaris OS in Virtual Machine (VM) and tried to install a demo version of IBMs Informix 11.50. Unfortunately the setup script of IDS says that it cannot proceed because of missing library - which is libcmd.so.1. But I can see this file at /usr/lib path in OpenSolaris VM. I have no idea why the installer is not getting the libcmd.so.1 library. It would be great if anybody helps me to resolve this issue. Regards --Rabin
Hi All,
To resolve this issue I tried to run install script as the following command:
"ids_install -gui -disable-checks".
In this way I can avoid the library (libcmd.so.1) missing error and it
installed the server. Then I tried to run server instance using the command
"oninit -iwy". I am running this command as 'root' user. It is giving the
following error:
bash: /opt/IBM/informix/bin/oninit: can not execute binary file.
Do you have any idea how to resolve this issue?
With regards,
--Rabin.
RABINDRANATH DAS wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> To resolve this issue I tried to run install script as the following command:
> "ids_install -gui -disable-checks".
>
> In this way I can avoid the library (libcmd.so.1) missing error and it
> installed the server. Then I tried to run server instance using the command
> "oninit -iwy". I am running this command as 'root' user. It is giving the
> following error:
>
> bash: /opt/IBM/informix/bin/oninit: can not execute binary file.
>
> Do you have any idea how to resolve this issue?
>
> With regards,
> --Rabin.
I bet if you do a file $INFORMIXDIR/bin/oninit, you'll find it's a sparc
binary. Are you sure you are installing the product for the correct platform?
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Marco
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Shared library directories have to be listed in the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable for searches to find the libraries they contain. Art Art S. Kagel Advanced DataTools (www.advancedatatools.com) IIUG Board of Directors (art@iiug.org) See you at the 2010 IIUG Informix Conference April 25-28, 2010 Overland Park (Kansas City), KS www.iiug.org/conf Disclaimer: Please keep in mind that my own opinions are my own opinions and do not reflect on my employer, Advanced DataTools, the IIUG, nor any other organization with which I am associated either explicitly, implicitly, or by inference. Neither do those opinions reflect those of other individuals affiliated with any entity with which I am affiliated nor those of the entities themselves. On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 6:52 AM, RABINDRANATH DAS <dasrabin2000@yahoo.com>wrote: > Hi All, > > I've installed the OpenSolaris OS in Virtual Machine (VM) and tried to > install > a demo version of IBMs Informix 11.50. Unfortunately the setup script of > IDS > says that it cannot proceed because of missing library - which is > libcmd.so.1. > But I can see this file at /usr/lib path in OpenSolaris VM. > > I have no idea why the installer is not getting the libcmd.so.1 library. It > would be great if anybody helps me to resolve this issue. > > Regards > --Rabin > > > > ******************************************************************************* > Forum Note: Use "Reply" to post a response in the discussion forum. > > --000e0cd1eb0e373b58047c94acbb
Run: file /opt/IBM/informix/bin/oninit
To determine if you have installed the correct platform version of IDS.
Art
Art S. Kagel
Advanced DataTools (www.advancedatatools.com)
IIUG Board of Directors (art@iiug.org)
See you at the 2010 IIUG Informix Conference
April 25-28, 2010
Overland Park (Kansas City), KS
www.iiug.org/conf
Disclaimer: Please keep in mind that my own opinions are my own opinions and
do not reflect on my employer, Advanced DataTools, the IIUG, nor any other
organization with which I am associated either explicitly, implicitly, or by
inference. Neither do those opinions reflect those of other individuals
affiliated with any entity with which I am affiliated nor those of the
entities themselves.
On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 7:20 AM, RABINDRANATH DAS <dasrabin2000@yahoo.com>wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> To resolve this issue I tried to run install script as the following
> command:
> "ids_install -gui -disable-checks".
>
> In this way I can avoid the library (libcmd.so.1) missing error and it
> installed the server. Then I tried to run server instance using the command
> "oninit -iwy". I am running this command as 'root' user. It is giving the
> following error:
>
> bash: /opt/IBM/informix/bin/oninit: can not execute binary file.
>
> Do you have any idea how to resolve this issue?
>
> With regards,
> --Rabin.
>
>
>
>
*******************************************************************************
> Forum Note: Use "Reply" to post a response in the discussion forum.
>
>
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>
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 6:52 AM, RABINDRANATH DAS
> <dasrabin2000@yahoo.com>wrote:
> > I've installed the OpenSolaris OS in Virtual Machine (VM) and tried to
> > install
> > a demo version of IBMs Informix 11.50. Unfortunately the setup script of
> > IDS
> > says that it cannot proceed because of missing library - which is
> > libcmd.so.1.
> > But I can see this file at /usr/lib path in OpenSolaris VM.
> >
> > I have no idea why the installer is not getting the libcmd.so.1 library.
> It
> > would be great if anybody helps me to resolve this issue.
>
On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 07:24, Art Kagel <art.kagel@gmail.com> wrote:
> Shared library directories have to be listed in the LD_LIBRARY_PATH
> environment variable for searches to find the libraries they contain.
>
You don't normally need to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH to find the main system C
library.
Further, setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH does not work for SUID executables such as
oninit. That's the main reason why oninit and the other executables are so
big; they are statically linked.
Since there was also a problem executing oninit, I think the actual problem
was a SPARC executable on an Intel box or vice versa.
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