Sybase/Linux installation problem

[stephen bull]

I am trying to install sybase (sybase-ase-11.0.3.3-1.i386.rpm) but keep having problems with either privilege or port numbers.

The problem appears when sybinit tries to bring up the server I get "SERVER ERROR: Failed to boot server 'SYBASE'. "
The following messages appear in errorlog. It does not matter what 'free' port number I choose I always get the same error.

00:1999/02/04 11:17:19.69 server Opening Master Database ...
00:1999/02/04 11:17:19.69 server Loading SQL Server's default sort order and character set
00:1999/02/04 11:17:19.69 kernel network name bulls, type ether, port 3333
00:1999/02/04 11:17:19.69 kernel ninit: bind, Cannot assign requested address
00:1999/02/04 11:17:19.69 kernel ninit: All master network listeners have failed. Shutting down.
00:1999/02/04 11:17:19.69 kernel ueshutdown: exiting

I can bring the server up as root but then I am unable to attach to it using isql. I then get

Operating-system error:
Network is unreachable
DB-LIBRARY error:
Unable to connect: SQL Server is unavailable or does not exist.

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

steve

[gus]

Just off hand, the default port for Sybase is 7100 on Linux. I am not
sure what normally sits at 3333, but there may be a conflict. Try
modifying the interfaces file (take a backup first).

gus

P.S. I am no expert on this, but I like to play ... ;-)

[GVMoonlite]

You are farther than me....I can't even get the rpm to install? Got any ideas?
I'm getting dependency problems....saying I don't have the right version of
files to install the ASE rpm....I'm pretty good at this stuff....but this one
is stumping me.

Gordon

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In article <19990204072401...@ng-ch1.aol.com>,

Did you install the glibc-2.0.6-1 rpm?

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[Michael Peppler]

GVMoonlite wrote:
>
> You are farther than me....I can't even get the rpm to install? Got any ideas?
> I'm getting dependency problems....saying I don't have the right version of
> files to install the ASE rpm....I'm pretty good at this stuff....but this one
> is stumping me.

My guess is that you don't have recent enough glibc libraries.

Michael

[stephen bull]

I have tried ports 7100, 7110, 7112, 3123, 3124, 3127 and many, many more. The messages are different if the port is reserved.
I am also using verion 2.0.36-0.7 of the kernel as well. That is version 5.2 of red hat.

[stephen bull]

What was the error message? Wasn't it more specific than that?

Maybe the version of Linux you are using is not recent enough.

steve

gvmoo...@aol.com (GVMoonlite) wrote:

>You are farther than me....I can't even get the rpm to install? Got any ideas?
>I'm getting dependency problems....saying I don't have the right version of
>files to install the ASE rpm....I'm pretty good at this stuff....but this one
>is stumping me.
>

>Gordon

[GVMoonlite]

Hey dude...I'm really shocked at the support of this newsgroup. This has been
really helpful. I didn't have the glibc libraries installed (I finally
installed the most current one)...and now the stuff is up an running like a
champ (well...sybinit is running anyway <grin>). Thanks again.

[GVMoonlite]

What user are you running the server as?
sybase, root, other user? Maybe involves stuff with permissions...etc...

Gordon

[stephen bull]

The problem arose because I tried to give my machine a name other than localhost.
The interaces file had the correct machine name but I did not have the machine name aliased to 127.0.0.1
in my hosts file. It was aliased to a fixed IP address I use for a ppp connection to my ISP.
Aliasing the machine name to both IP adresses seems to get rid of the problem.