Libj9jit23.so

OUI Crash In Module Libj9jit23.so With IBM JDK/JRE 1.5 SR4 On AIX When Running On The New POWER7 Based Hardware [ID 1065579.1]

Applies to:

Oracle Universal Installer - Version 11.1.0.6.0 to 11.1.0.7 [Release 11.1]
IBM AIX on POWER Systems (64-bit)

Description

IBM has reported that the Oracle Universal Installer (OUI) will crash with IBM JDK/JRE 1.5 SR4 on AIX when running on the new POWER7 based hardware.

Occurrence

This impacts the install of Oracle Database 11gR1 Versions 11.1.0.6 and 11.1.0.7 on the POWER7 Systems.

Symptoms

OUI (aka ./runInstaller) will crash with errors similar to

% ./runInstaller

Starting Oracle Universal Installer...
Checking Temp space: must be greater than 190 MB. Actual 1113 MB Passed
Checking swap space: must be greater than 150 MB. Actual 16384 MB Passed
Checking monitor: must be configured to display at least 256 colors. Actual 16777216 Passed
Preparing to launch Oracle Universal Installer from /tmp/OraInstall2010-04-26_05-37-48PM. Please wait ...$ Oracle Universal Installer, Version 11.1.0.6.0 Production
Copyright (C) 1999, 2007, Oracle. All rights reserved.
Unhandled exception
Type=Segmentation error vmState=0x00000000
J9Generic_Signal_Number=00000004 Signal_Number=0000000b Error_Value=00000000 Signal_Code=00000033
Handler1=09001000A07DEC78 Handler2=09001000A07D6538
...
Module=/tmp/OraInstall2010-04-26_05-37-48PM/jdk/jre/bin/libj9jit23.so
Module_base_address=0900000001D7F000
Target=2_30_20070131_11312_BHdSMr (AIX 6.1)
CPU=ppc64 (4 logical CPUs) (0x300000000 RAM)
...

 

Workaround

Fix:

1. Download and unzip Patch 9216848
2. Install the patch carefully following the README

Also, as an available work-around it has also been shown that you may install an updated JDK 1.5 [SR 8 or later] that works on the power 7 processor,
in this case the workaround will be to launch OUI this way : ./runInstaller -jreloc <path of O.S jre>

Patches

Patch 9216848

History

26-May-2010 Added error to Symptoms section.

18-Mar-2010 Updated Workaround and Patch section with resolution for issue

23-Jul-2010 Proccessed Pending comment:  Install an updated JDK 1.5 [SR 8 or latter] that works on the power 7 processor.
Run 'opatch -jdk <PATH to new jdk>