-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Oliver Kiessler wrote: > can anyone make sense of this.... ? > > Error occurred during initialization of VM > Unable to load native library: > /usr/bea/jdk131_06/jre/lib/i386/libjava.so: symbol __libc_wait, version > GLIBC_2.0 not defined in file libc.so.6 with link time reference That means BEA's JVM is another one of the programs which is broken since it uses internal glibc symbols and which hasn't been fixed in the 3 years since we first pointed this out. Until RHL9 there was a work around in place but, as can be seen, work arounds simply only lead to not fixing bugs. At ftp://people.redhat.com/drepper/libcwait.c you find a file which you can compile with gcc -shared -o libcwait.so -fpic -O2 libcwait.c to get a DSO which you then can preload with LD_PRELOAD=/path/to/libcwait.so java ARGS... - -- â Ulrich Drepper â Red Hat, Inc. â 444 Castro St â Mountain View, CA â -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/xk3h2ijCOnn/RHQRAi0FAJ9DSjQbsb/kqT0F29X8jOOD1rkYDQCgtssQ qW3DDLkRkBmPXb4+7P9LKvo= =EV9E -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----