Hello,

I just did a fresh install taking care of following installation steps and settings + made sure I was the oracle user:

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su - oracle
/OraHome1/Disk1/runInstaller
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I still get the same problems.
I double checked by RPM files and this is what I know that I have installed on my computer :

compat-db-4.0.14-5.i386.rpm
compat-gcc-7.3-2.96.122.i386.rpm
compat-gcc-c++-7.3-2.96.122.i386.rpm
compat-libstdc++-7.3-2.96.122.i386.rpm
compat-libstdc++-devel-7.3-2.96.122.i386.rpm
openmotif2.2.2-16
setarch-1.3-1.i386.rpm
tcl-8.3.5-92.i386.rpm

glibc 2.3.2-95.3

jdk-1.3.1.09.i586.rpm
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I noticed some errors with the RPM, such as:
error: rpmdbNextIterator: skippint h# 651 blob size(145396): BAD, 8 + 16 * il(1633840229) + dl(544501536)

1) I am not sure if this is significant or not ?
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2) Only my openmotif is 2.2.2-16 and the one proposed in the literature is 21-2.1.30-8. Could that be the source of the problem ?

3) Also, if as you say Red Hat Enterprise 3 ships with a more recent version of the gcc compiler, how can I go about using the 2.96 gcc ?

PT