SO7 installation problem patch 5

Hello,

I try to apply the patch so-7-pp5-bin-linux.bin on a serverinstallation, but the installation fail. (OS : suse 9.2 glibc 2.3.3)

I do:

./so-7-pp5-bin-linux.bin -patch [path to network installation] --> I see a message in a window for a very short time, to short for reading. No other error message. If I start SO7 I can t see any patch information.

Next I do:

./so-7-pp5-bin-linux.bin -patch [path to network installation] -v -debug --> A window pop up with "INSTALL_INFO flag is missing ExitCode 9".

What does it mean?

BeforeI have patch no. 4 installed with no problem. On my second computer with Debian OS I have no problem to install patch no. 5

Next I do: Remove SO7 competely and install again. The same problem, but now I can t install an earlier patch again too.

I removed an unused earlier installation of OpenOffie also and install SO7 completly again. Nothing. I can t install any patch

What can I do?

Regards

Udo

[1239 byte] By [udo29] at [2007-11-25 22:36:45]
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This will probably not be much help; SO7 was unstable when installed on a system with glibc 2.3.1 (Libranet 2.8 Debian). The applications would start but would shut down after a few keystrokes. When patch #5 arrived, I installed it and noted that the instability problem was gone.

I am now wondering if the compiler used for the patch 5, which now apparently has backward compatibility with an older glibc version may be incompatible with the version used in SuSE.

NB I have reported separately another strange incompatibility with SO8 and KDE 3.2.x. SO8 segfaults under KDE but runs perfectly under other windows managers on the same system. I have reported this to Sun/SO and am awaiting a response.

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