Hi Jessica,
As I tested on Red Hat 8.1, if ncurses6 is already installed, the bulidsmi script works fine after creating a symbolic link for ncurses5 as shown below.
ln -s /usr/lib64/libncurses.so.6 /usr/lib64/libncurses.so.5
ln -s /usr/lib64/libtinfo.so.6 /usr/lib64/libtinfo.so.5
However, it is recommended to install the compatibility library.
Installing ncurses-compat-libs with yum or dnf doesn't give any errors and buildsmi works fine.
[root@localhost BaseOS]# cat /etc/redhat-release
Red Hat Enterprise Linux release 8.1 (Ootpa)
[root@localhost BaseOS]# yum install ncurses-compat-libs
Updating Subscription Management repositories.
Unable to read consumer identity
This system is not registered to Red Hat Subscription Management. You can use subscription-manager to register.
Last metadata expiration check: 0:01:13 ago on Thu 26 Mar 2020 09:22:48 PM PDT.
Dependencies resolved.
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Package Arch Version Repository Size
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Installing:
ncurses-compat-libs x86_64 6.1-7.20180224.el8 rhel8_BaseOS 331 k
Transaction Summary
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Install 1 Package
Total size: 331 k
Installed size: 1.2 M
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
warning: /mnt/BaseOS/Packages/ncurses-compat-libs-6.1-7.20180224.el8.x86_64.rpm: Header V3 RSA/SHA256 Signature, key ID fd431d51: NOKEY
rhel8_BaseOS 60 kB/s | 5.0 kB 00:00
Importing GPG key 0xFD431D51:
Userid : "Red Hat, Inc. (release key 2) <security@redhat.com>"
Fingerprint: 567E 347A D004 4ADE 55BA 8A5F 199E 2F91 FD43 1D51
From : /mnt/RPM-GPG-KEY-redhat-release
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Key imported successfully
Importing GPG key 0xD4082792:
Userid : "Red Hat, Inc. (auxiliary key) <security@redhat.com>"
Fingerprint: 6A6A A7C9 7C88 90AE C6AE BFE2 F76F 66C3 D408 2792
From : /mnt/RPM-GPG-KEY-redhat-release
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Key imported successfully
Running transaction check
Transaction check succeeded.
Running transaction test
Transaction test succeeded.
Running transaction
Preparing : 1/1
Installing : ncurses-compat-libs-6.1-7.20180224.el8.x86_64 1/1
Running scriptlet: ncurses-compat-libs-6.1-7.20180224.el8.x86_64 1/1
Verifying : ncurses-compat-libs-6.1-7.20180224.el8.x86_64 1/1
Installed products updated.
Installed:
ncurses-compat-libs-6.1-7.20180224.el8.x86_64
Complete!
[root@localhost BaseOS]# ls -la /usr/lib64/libncurses.so.5*
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 17 Jan 16 2019 /usr/lib64/libncurses.so.5 -> libncurses.so.5.9
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 195776 Jan 16 2019 /usr/lib64/libncurses.so.5.9
[root@localhost BaseOS]# ls -la /usr/lib64/libtinfo.so.5*
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 15 Jan 16 2019 /usr/lib64/libtinfo.so.5 -> libtinfo.so.5.9
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 200000 Jan 16 2019 /usr/lib64/libtinfo.so.5.9
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SangGyu Jeong
Software Engineer
Infrasoft
Seoul Korea, Republic of
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Original Message:
Sent: Thu March 26, 2020 08:38 PM
From: Jessica Flores
Subject: Error building sys* databases
Hello everybody!
We installed informix 14.10,FC3 on a Red Hat Linux 8.1 distribution (Ootpa), the installation log didn't have warnings or errors, but, when We try initialized the instance for the first Time, it cannot to build sys* databases, we tried manually to build it with shell
$INFORMIXDIR/etc/buildsmi without success..
The principal error is:
dbaccess: error while loading shared libraries: libncurses.so.5: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32
Cleaning up whatever was successfully created
dbaccess: error while loading shared libraries: libncurses.so.5: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32
We review all the prerequisites in machine notes and it was validated. Though the same machine notes didn't refer RH8 as a certified distribution, but in the Informix Server System Requirements
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it does.
Some ideas? thanks in advance
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Jessica Flores
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