Seg Fault when installing DB2 on SuSE Linux

[forau]

I have been beating my head against the wall all week on this problem, and I don't seem to be making any leeway. So, any help that anyone can give me will be most appreciated. Here's the deal:

I am trying to install DB2 7.2 on SuSE 8.0. During the install (when it says "Administer Server Configuration&quot, the install screen dies, says "Segmentation Fault", and dumps me back to the command prompt. I have made sure that there are no instances of the string "db2" in /etc/services and /etc/inittab. I have also made sure that the three default users and groups do not exist prior to installation. /tmp/db2setup.log doesn't have any errors, and it looks like the install is dying inside the method DB2IProtocol::CreateTCP() - I found this out by running db2setup -d (for debug).

That's about it. Thanks in advance!

 

[forau]

Figured it out....

SuSE 8.0 comes with a *bajillion* entries in /etc/services. This is what is causing the seg fault. So, if you copy the file to a temp file and put a smaller file in its place, the install will go just swimingly.

As a side note, SuSE 8.0 also does not come with ksh, so you will have to install that to run a bunch of the scripts that come with DB2

 

[billmedland]

Actually it isn't the size of the services file; it's the content (presumably the width)

wc -L should give you about 86 or thereabouts; the 8.0 Professional copy is initially 425.
Many entries are missing their newlines; e.g. services 6400 to 6410, 2038, 17007 and 2747 et al.