<html><head></head><body>No hope at all unless you build a vm with ancient code or toss the entire build code away and start over with all new. <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On June 19, 2021 8:49:22 PM EDT, Neal Rhodes via Ale <ale@ale.org> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre class="k9mail">Don't shoot, I'm only the messenger. There was an old lady that <br>swallowed a fly...<br><br>Her children needed to run a Progress SQL client to setup DBA <br>permissions. It was written in Java, and it was written to run with <br>/usr/java/jre1.3.1_10. On 32 bit Linux. And her children only needed <br>to run it when building a new DB. Which is about every 10 years.<br><br>Unbeknownst to her, her children moved the whole thing to a 64 bit <br>Centos 5 system. Including the Java. Now, the Java startup scripts <br>didn't even know about x86_64. It only knew about i386. When she saw <br>that she was able to dink with the various wrapper scripts to make it <br>run the i386 32 bit stuff, which is the only Java libraries Progress <br>delivered to work with their client.<br><br>This got her farther down the road, but not far:<br>/usr/java/jre1.3.1_10/bin/i386/native_threads/java: error while loading <br>shared libraries:<br> libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such <br>file or directory<br><br>Now, since this only needs to get run every maybe 10 years, it's not a <br>surprise this was not known by her children when they moved it.<br><br>HOWEVER, attempting to obtain this, she finds...<br><br>[root@austin native_threads]# yum provides libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2<br>Loaded plugins: dellsysid, downloadonly, fastestmirror, rhnplugin<br>There was an error communicating with RHN.<br>RHN support will be disabled.<br>Error communicating with server. The message was:<br>Name or service not known<br>Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile<br>file://var/cache/yum/centos4-base-x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 5] <br>OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: <br>'/cache/yum/centos4-base-x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml'<br>Trying other mirror.<br>Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: <br>centos4-base-x86_64. Please verify its path and try again<br><br><br>She doubts this 12 year old Progress Java program is going to just run <br>with the native java version "1.6.0_20"; it would seem the most prudent <br>to locate this binary library to allow the older Java version to run. <br>This is a one-shot one-time setup.<br><br>Yes, she knows Centos 5, in fact ALL Centos is now in the dustbin. Any <br>hopes for her?<br><br>regards,<br><br>Neal<hr>Ale mailing list<br>Ale@ale.org<br><a href="https://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale">https://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale</a><br>See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at<br><a href="http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo">http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo</a><br></pre></blockquote></div><br>-- <br>Computers amplify human error<br>Super computers are really cool</body></html>