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From: "Georg-W. Koltermann" <gwk@rahn-koltermann.de>
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Subject: linux_base-8 and oracle9i
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Hi,

after some frustration I found out that Oracle 9i actually does run with
linux_base-8 (on FreeBSD 5.2-R) ***unless*** you've mounted linprocfs.

When linprocfs is mounted, Oracle does not start.  You get an error
"ORA-03113: end-of-file on communication channel" during startup, and
the alert file has:

        Starting ORACLE instance (normal)
        LICENSE_MAX_SESSION = 50
        LICENSE_SESSIONS_WARNING = 0
        Mon Feb  2 23:14:02 2004
        Errors in file /opt/oracle/product/9.0.1/rdbms/log/gwkutf_ora_2318.trc:
        ORA-07445: exception encountered: core dump [ksunfy()+1837] [SIGFPE] [Integer overflow] [0x0] [] []

So users of Oracle might want to avoid linux_base-8 or at least not
mount linprocfs.

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Regards,
Georg.