Installation problem: "Attach to native process failed"
I am installing Sun Studio 12 on a SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 (ia64), and get the error "Attach to native process failed". I found that the installer script is using the default java executable, which seems to be causing the problem. If I edit the install script to use "/usr/java/jdk1.5.0_09/bin/java", instead of the default java which is version 1.4.2.
I have not installed any Java packages outside of the SLES10 distribution, so surely other people will come across this problem. I hope this post will help.
Instead of editing the installer, the 1.5.0.09 version can be made the default java executable by changing the symbolic link /etc/alternatives/java, which points to the 'preferred' executable.
Does this mean that SLES10 Java packages are broken, or just that the newer Java versaion is needed?
