Informix 14.10 FC11 WE on Red Hat 9.4 X64 - ids_install issues
Chris Micallef's ids_install of Informix 14.10 FC11 on Red Hat 9.4 with Oracle JRE 1.8 hit a NullPointerException and sysadmin build failures. Henri Cujass said FC11 installs are often problematic and fixed it with soft links to missing libraries. Chris installed ncurses-compat-libs from EPEL to supply libncurses.so.5. Paul Watson said FC11 SSL issues stopped him deploying it.
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Hi, I'm installing Informix 14.10 FC 11 WE as root on Red Hat 9.4 with Oracle JREJava 1.8 ( jre-1.8.0_421-oracle-x64 ) but the installer is encountering errors during installation (errors below from ids log) seems an issue with the JRE, also the Informix instance that is created has also issues to build sysadmin database, any tips on what might be casuing the installation errors. Thanks 2024-10-08 12:20:22 6446 6360 jre link jrepath= /usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.8.0_421-oracle-x64, krakjrelnk=/opt/IBM/Informix/extend/krakatoa/jre 2024-10-08 12:20:22 6446 6360 createJRElnk (ip, jre = /usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.8.0_421-oracle-x64, krakjrelnk = /opt/IBM/Informix/extend/krakatoa/jre) 2024-10-08 12:20:22 6446 6360 iadSetConfig( .. JVPJAVAHOME", krakjrelnk = /opt/IBM/Informix/extend/krakatoa/jre...) 2024-10-08 12:20:22 6446 6360 iadGetJVMLibDirLocation(krakjrelnk = /opt/IBM/Informix/extend/krakatoa/jre) 2024-10-08 12:20:23 6446 6360 jreLibDir != null. iadSetConfig(...JVPJAVALIB", jreLibDir = lib/amd64) 2024-10-08 12:20:23 6446 6360 Error: Unexpected error Modifying UI Variables. 2024-10-08 12:20:23 6446 6360 An exception occurred. 2024-10-08 12:20:23 6446 6360 java.lang.NullPointerException14.10 2024-10-08 12:20:23 6446 6360 Call Stack: com.installshield.boot.CoreFileUtils.createTempFile(CoreFileUtils.java:174) com.ibm.informix.install.ia.FixVariables.checkdbaccess(FixVariables.java:2956) com.ibm.informix.install.ia.FixVariables.startDBServerPostInstall(FixVariables.java:1459) com.ibm.informix.install.ia.FixVariables.doit(FixVariables.java:296) com.ibm.informix.install.ia.FixVariables.install(FixVariables.java:2967) com.zerog.ia.installer.actions.CustomAction.installSelf(Unknown Source) com.zerog.ia.installer.actions.PlugInAction.installSelf(Unknown Source) com.zerog.ia.installer.AAMgrBase.an(Unknown Source) com.zerog.ia.installer.ConsoleBasedAAMgr.ac(Unknown Source) com.zerog.ia.installer.ConsoleBasedAAMgr.runPostInstall(Unknown Source) com.zerog.ia.installer.LifeCycleManager.consoleInstallMain(Unknown Source) com.zerog.ia.installer.LifeCycleManager.executeApplication(Unknown Source) com.zerog.ia.installer.Main.main(Unknown Source) sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62) sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498) com.zerog.lax.LAX.launch(Unknown Source) com.zerog.lax.LAX.main(Unknown Source) ------------------------------ Chris Micallef ------------------------------
Hi Chris, yes, that's an ongoing bad story with the most FC11 installations. The FC11 R&D team must stabilize the installation regarding the libraries and Java issues. You have to check the error logs from sys* db build errors-you can find the error filename in the online.log. My dirty hack was creating some soft links to the libraries with the needed names as requested in this error logs ( $INFORMIXDIR/lib/...so.5 ...). It works fine, finally. Good luck, Henri ------------------------------ Henri Cujass leolo IT, CTO Germany IBM Champion henri.cujass@leolo.com ------------------------------
Hi Henri, Thanks for the info, as regards the missing libraries on RH 9.4 finshed up installing ncurses-compat-libs from this link Is libncurses.so.5 missing from RHEL 9? - Red Hat Customer Portal and using EPEL third party repository https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/epel/getting-started/ and seems working fine. Regards Chris ------------------------------ Chris Micallef ------------------------------
Don't expect SSL to work back to another version, been an issue for months and has stopped me deploying FC11 anywhere. In my world it is probably the worse release in years On 10/10/2024 1:54 AM, Chris Micallef via IBM TechXchange Community wrote: 010001927534e835-2f058313-f7bc-4f34-93bc-51231715fbea-000000@email.amazonses.com"> Hi Henri, Thanks for the info, as regards the missing libraries on RH 9.4 finshed up installing ncurses-compat-libs from this link Is libncurses... -posted to the "Informix" group