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)

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

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