I try to make a Baan 5.0c installation for china.
Here are the details:

OS: Solaris 9 / Sparc
DB: Oracle 10g 10.1.0.3.0 (NLS_LANG simplified chinese_china.zhs16cgb231280)
Baan: 5.0c ( Languages English + Chinese )

The database is created with the NLS settings from above, char spacing character, with char code AL32UTF8 .

I try to install Baan 5.0c with updated porting set 7.1d.06, multibyte, native, GB_SUN.

Short time after starting the GUI to continue the installation, the bshell_inst crashes with a core dump.

The OS command "locale -a" shows a lot of chinese locales including "zh".
I tried to trace the bshell using "truss" but the result as well as the core dumps don´t give any hint to solve the problem.

I retry the installation on another machine and get the same error.

Who can help ?
:mad: :mad: :mad:

What do your ulimits look like?

Dave

# ulimit -a
time(seconds) unlimited
file(blocks) unlimited
data(kbytes) unlimited
stack(kbytes) 8192
coredump(blocks) unlimited
nofiles(descriptors) 2048
memory(kbytes) unlimited

Looks it ok ?

Usually the stack should be higher like
stack(kbytes) 51200

might not help here, but its worth a shot (its the only thing I can think of off the top of my head..)

Dave

Sorry, it´s still the same error.
I´d set the stack to 65535.
:(

So are you sure that its the bshell dumping core and not the driver?

If you do a "strings -a core|more" it should give you an idea.

Any errors in the logfiles?

Dave

I´d analysed it by truss.
There are two core dumps generated .
The first by sh_server6.2 and the second by bshell_inst6.2 .
Neither the truss output nor the two core dumps give me any idea why it crashes.
:(

the install session does start though right? you could try
like a BDB_DEBUG=02 or start it with -dbgfdev, something like that..

I have no idea, I'd try Baan support.

Dave

gonzmaus,
did u get a solution to this??? if yes, how did u manage? because we are trying to install Multibyte SSA ERP LN 6.1 now on Solaris 9 and getting the same coredump error!!

Siddhartha
:(

Hello,
the problem in installing on solaris >=8 with multibyte character set was identified as an incompatible development between solaris ( updated language libraries ) and the Baan IV / 5 porting sets. If you use the latest version of the portingset 6.1 or 7.x it will no longer be a problem to install Baan IV or 5 with multibyte character set on solaris. At the moment I don´t have the experience with SSA ERP LN and multibyte. Sorry.

Gonzmaus