Tales From A Lazy Fat DBA

Hello Everyone,
Installing your Oracle Software using GUI Method requires to call “runInstaller” script and is always an easy step if you have proper permissions, DISPLAY settings in place.
But here i would like to discuss one of the case where I’ve spent several hours to fix one of the error that occurred every-time i called runInstaller script even after setting all required permissions and DISPLAY variables.

It fails to render the installer and creates a log file under /tmp directory with below mentioned contents.

#
# An unexpected error has been detected by HotSpot Virtual Machine:
#
# SIGSEGV (0xb) at pc=0x0000003e2ce14d70, pid=4000, tid=140717162321680
#
# Java VM: Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (1.5.0_51-b10 mixed mode)
# Problematic frame:
# C [ld-linux-x86-64.so.2+0x14d70]
#

————— T H R E A D —————

Current thread (0x000000004220d3f0): JavaThread “AWT-EventQueue-0” [_thread_in_native, id=4014]

siginfo:si_signo=11, si_errno=0, si_code=128, si_addr=0x0000000000000000

Registers:
RAX=0x0000000000000001, RBX=0x000000004216ae50, RCX=0x000000009eba2203, RDX=0x000000000fabfbff
RSP=0x00007ffb44792278, RBP=0x00007ffb447923c0, RSI=0x0000000000000000, RDI=0x0000000000000058
R8 =0x0000000000000000, R9 =0x0000000000000000, R10=0x00007ffb447921f0, R11=0x000000004216ae50
R12=0x00007ffb447923e8, R13=0x0000000041f85330, R14=0x0000000000000000, R15=0x0000000000000000
RIP=0x0000003e2ce14d70, EFL=0x0000000000010202, CSGSFS=0x0000000000000033, ERR=0x0000000000000000
TRAPNO=0x000000000000000d

Top of Stack: (sp=0x00007ffb44792278)
0x00007ffb44792278: 0000003e2ce0aaea 0000000000000000

Signal Handlers:
SIGSEGV: [libjvm.so+0x67ed60], sa_mask[0]=0x7ffbfeff, sa_flags=0x14000004
SIGBUS: [libjvm.so+0x67ed60], sa_mask[0]=0x7ffbfeff, sa_flags=0x14000004
SIGFPE: [libjvm.so+0x582020], sa_mask[0]=0x7ffbfeff, sa_flags=0x14000004
SIGPIPE: [libjvm.so+0x582020], sa_mask[0]=0x7ffbfeff, sa_flags=0x14000004
SIGILL: [libjvm.so+0x582020], sa_mask[0]=0x7ffbfeff, sa_flags=0x14000004
SIGUSR1: SIG_DFL, sa_mask[0]=0x00000000, sa_flags=0x00000000
SIGUSR2: [libjvm.so+0x583ed0], sa_mask[0]=0x00000000, sa_flags=0x14000004
SIGHUP: [libjvm.so+0x5839a0], sa_mask[0]=0x7ffbfeff, sa_flags=0x14000004
SIGINT: [libjvm.so+0x5839a0], sa_mask[0]=0x7ffbfeff, sa_flags=0x14000004
SIGQUIT: [libjvm.so+0x5839a0], sa_mask[0]=0x7ffbfeff, sa_flags=0x14000004
SIGTERM: [libjvm.so+0x5839a0], sa_mask[0]=0x7ffbfeff, sa_flags=0x14000004

————— S Y S T E M —————

OS:Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.0 (Santiago)

uname:Linux 2.6.32-573.12.1.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Dec 15 06:42:08 PST 2015 x86_64
libc:glibc 2.12 NPTL 2.12
rlimit: STACK 10240k, CORE 0k, NPROC 16384, NOFILE 65536, AS infinity
load average:0.09 0.06 0.08

CPU:total 1 em64t

Memory: 4k page, physical 2046684k(69828k free), swap 2031612k(2031612k free)

vm_info: Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (1.5.0_51-b10) for linux-amd64, built on Jun 6 2013 09:59:46 by java_re with gcc 3.2.2 (SuSE Linux)

time: Sat Jan 2 23:09:21 2016
elapsed time: 2 seconds

The workaround to the problem is to set “LD_BIND_NOW” environment variable to a value “1” as shown below and re-launch the installer.

bash-4.1$ export LD_BIND_NOW=1
bash-4.1$ ./runInstaller
Starting Oracle Universal Installer…

Checking Temp space: must be greater than 120 MB. Actual 27339 MB Passed
Checking swap space: must be greater than 150 MB. Actual 4031 MB Passed
Checking monitor: must be configured to display at least 256 colors. Actual 16777216 Passed
Preparing to launch Oracle Universal Installer from /tmp/OraInstall2013-07-01_03-29-40AM. Please wait …
bash-4.1$

This bug seems to have reported on 11.2.0.1 & 11.2.0.3.

Hope That Helps
Prashant Dixit