Jan 28
ASE 12.5.4 setup (java version of Installshield) unsets LD_POINTER_GUARD, which will cause some linux distributions to fail to ’setup’ dataserver.
This appears to be a variation of the issue raised in the "Sybase’s Backup Server for Linux (64bit) is broken 
" post. What is unclear is whether this variable is being undefined by the Sybase supplied Java, Installshield itself or whether Sybase engineering is explicitly undefining it in the Installshield script. I’ve opened a case with Sybase to ensure that this gets resolved with the ASE 12.5.4 esd 6 ebf.
sybase@jason-desktop:~/ASE-12_5/init/logs$ cat srvbuild0127.001
Sat Jan 27 20:37:05 2007: srvbuild/12.5.4/P/Linux Intel/Linux 2.4.18-18.7.xsmp i686/EBF 13388/OPT/Tue May 9 08:38:07 PDT 2006
Sat Jan 27 20:37:05 2007: Getting attribute values from sybinit resource file `/database/sybase/ASE-12_5/sqlsrv.res’.
Sat Jan 27 20:37:05 2007:
Sat Jan 27 20:37:05 2007:
Sat Jan 27 20:37:05 2007: Warning: Unable to verify /database/sybase/data/sybsystemprocs.raw device size. Please verify that this device is not already in use and that it has sufficient space available.
type = 1
server_page_size = 2k
master_device_physical_name = /database/sybase/master.raw
master_device_size = 100
master_database_size = 50
sybsystemprocs_device_physical_name = /database/sybase/data/sybsystemprocs.raw
sybsystemprocs_device_size = 300
sybsystemprocs_database_size = 300
errorlog = /database/sybase/ASE-12_5/install/JASONDESKTOP.log
configfile = /database/sybase/ASE-12_5/JASONDESKTOP.cfg
sybsystemdb_device_physical_name = /database/sybase/data/sybsysdb.dat
sybsystemdb_device_size = 1
sybsystemdb_database_size = 1
shmem = /database/sybase/ASE-12_5
default_backup_server = JASONDESKTOP_BS
server_name = JASONDESKTOP
force_buildmaster = yes
Sat Jan 27 20:37:05 2007: (Shell command) /database/sybase/ASE-12_5/bin/dataserver -d/database/sybase/master.raw -b100M -z2k -sJASONDESKTOP -e/database/sybase/ASE-12_5/install/JASONDESKTOP.log -T1623 -f > /tmp/sbNXsSD5 2>&1
dataserver: master device size for this server: 100.0 Mb
dataserver: master database size for this server: 6.0 Mb
dataserver: model database size for this server: 2.0 Mb
00:00000:00000:2007/01/27 20:37:05.95 kernel Checked out license ASE_DEV
00:00000:00000:2007/01/27 20:37:05.96 kernel Adaptive Server Enterprise Developer Edition.
00:00000:00000:2007/01/27 20:37:06.05 kernel Using config area from primary master device.
00:00000:00000:2007/01/27 20:37:06.05 server Configuration Error: Configuration file, ‘/database/sybase/JASONDESKTOP.cfg’, does not exist.
00:00000:00000:2007/01/27 20:37:06.05 kernel Warning: A configuration file was not specified and the default file ‘/database/sybase/JASONDESKTOP.cfg’ does not exist. SQL Server creates the default file with the default configuration.
00:00000:00000:2007/01/27 20:37:06.06 kernel Warning: Using default file ‘/database/sybase/JASONDESKTOP.cfg’ since a configuration file was not specified. Specify a configuration file name in the RUNSERVER file to avoid this message.
00:00000:00000:2007/01/27 20:37:06.08 kernel os_find_good_keyfile: Found shared memory segment: key 0×6e0300b8, id 121044995
00:00000:00000:2007/01/27 20:37:06.08 kernel os_find_good_keyfile: If SQL Server using it is not running, remove it by hand
00:00000:00000:2007/01/27 20:37:06.08 kernel os_find_good_keyfile: Trying a different key
00:00000:00000:2007/01/27 20:37:06.08 kernel Internal run-time model set for Linux - Native
00:00000:00000:2007/01/27 20:37:06.08 kernel Using 1024 file descriptors.
00:00000:00000:2007/01/27 20:37:06.08 kernel Adaptive Server Enterprise/12.5.4/EBF 13388/P/Linux Intel/Enterprise Linux/ase1254/2006/32-bit/OPT/Fri May 19 23:17:01 2006
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00:00000:00000:2007/01/27 20:37:06.08 kernel
00:00000:00000:2007/01/27 20:37:06.08 kernel This software contains confidential and trade secret information of Sybase,
00:00000:00000:2007/01/27 20:37:06.08 kernel Inc. Use, duplication or disclosure of the software and documentation by
00:00000:00000:2007/01/27 20:37:06.08 kernel the U.S. Government is subject to restrictions set forth in a license
00:00000:00000:2007/01/27 20:37:06.08 kernel agreement between the Government and Sybase, Inc. or other written
00:00000:00000:2007/01/27 20:37:06.08 kernel agreement specifying the Government’s rights to use the software and any
00:00000:00000:2007/01/27 20:37:06.08 kernel applicable FAR provisions, for example, FAR 52.227-19.
00:00000:00000:2007/01/27 20:37:06.08 kernel Sybase, Inc. One Sybase Drive, Dublin, CA 94568, USA
00:00000:00000:2007/01/27 20:37:06.08 kernel ASE booted on Linux release 2.6.17-10-generic version #2 SMP Tue Dec 5 22:28:26 UTC 2006.
00:00000:00000:2007/01/27 20:37:06.08 kernel Using ‘/database/sybase/JASONDESKTOP.cfg’ for configuration information.
00:00000:00000:2007/01/27 20:37:06.08 kernel Logging ASE messages in file ‘/database/sybase/ASE-12_5/install/JASONDESKTOP.log’.
00:00000:00000:2007/01/27 20:37:06.12 kernel SQL Server booted with TCP_NODELAY enabled.
00:00000:00000:2007/01/27 20:37:06.12 kernel SSL Plus v3.1.14 security modules loaded successfully.
00:00000:00000:2007/01/27 20:37:06.12 kernel Network and device connection limit is 1009.
00:00000:00000:2007/01/27 20:37:06.29 server Number of blocks left for proc headers: 3232.
00:00000:00000:2007/01/27 20:37:06.29 server Proc header memory allocated 1616 pages for each per engine cache
00:00000:00000:2007/01/27 20:37:06.32 server Size of the 2K memory pool: 8192 Kb
00:00000:00000:2007/01/27 20:37:06.32 server Memory allocated for the default data cache cachelet 1: 8192 Kb
00:00000:00000:2007/01/27 20:37:06.32 kernel Enabling Linux Kernel asynchronous disk I/O strategy.
00:00000:00000:2007/01/27 20:37:06.32 kernel Initializing virtual device 0, ‘/database/sybase/master.raw’ with dsync ‘off’.
00:00000:00000:2007/01/27 20:37:06.32 kernel Virtual device 0 started using asynchronous i/o.
00:00000:00000:2007/01/27 20:37:06.32 kernel Worker Thread Manager is not enabled for use in SQL Server.
00:00000:00000:2007/01/27 20:37:06.33 kernel Either the config parameter ‘use security services’ is set to 0, or ASE does not support use of external security mechanisms on this platform. The Security Control Layer will not be initialized. No external security mechanisms will be supported.
00:00000:00000:2007/01/27 20:37:06.33 kernel Unix interval timer enabled for sysclk interrupts.
00:00000:00000:2007/01/27 20:37:06.38 kernel engine 0, os pid 8048 online
Segmentation fault
Sat Jan 27 20:37:06 2007: Buildmaster return code: -117.
Sat Jan 27 20:37:06 2007:
January 29th, 2007 at 1:10 pm
if I set the variable, srvbuildres works fine. When I ‘configure
ASE’ using the setup program, it gives the exact same error as if the
variable wasn’t set.
When I replace the dataserver binary with a shell script that spits out
the value of the variable, the variable is UNDEFINED.
Whether or not this will work on a distribution depends on how the
developers of the distribution build GLIBC.
In any case, I don’t think Sybase actively disables the variable, but
Installshield or Java might. Obviously, something is unsetting the
variable.
I’ve opened a case with Sybase to verify that this is addressed in the
12.5.4 esd 6 patch. That is, dataserver should be built against a
little more modern GLIBC.
AFAIK, the 12.5.4 esd 6 will be built against GLIBC 2.4, resolving this
whole mess.
January 30th, 2007 at 11:55 pm
I actually got bitten by this bug with the 15.0 installer and commented about it in one of your previous posts!
http://froebe.net/blog/2006/12/ase_125x_64bit_and_ase_15_fail.html#comment-325
Hopefully they’ll fix it in both 12.5.x AND 15.0.x !
June 29th, 2007 at 12:20 pm
Sybase Techsupport has created CR455393 to address this issue. If you are running into this issue, please contact Sybase so we can get engineering attention for this.
January 27th, 2008 at 9:37 am
Ubuntu 7.10 - Gutsy Gibbon
>Adaptive Server Enterprise/15.0.2/EBF 14331/P/Linux Intel
>Linux ed-laptop 2.6.22-14-generic
I have set LD_POINTER_GUARD to 1(and to 0) and
I still get :
“00:00000:00000:2008/01/27 16:21:58.36 kernel Completed processing to generate RSA keypair.
00:00000:00000:2008/01/27 16:21:58.37 kernel Encryption provider initialization succeeded on engine 0.
00:00000:00000:2008/01/27 16:21:58.37 kernel engine 0, os pid 6927 online
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
Sun Jan 27 16:21:58 2008: Buildmaster return code: -117.
Sun Jan 27 16:21:58 2008:
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