Running IBM DB2 Client V8.1 under FreeBSD

[Chagin Dmitry]

On Mon, 19 May 2008, Ulrich Spoerlein wrote:

> Hi,
>
> did anyone accomplish this feat? I have a DB/2 Client installation
> copied over to a FreeBSD 6.3 system and while the db2(1) binary
> starts, it runs into an endless loop.
>
> 89938 db2      RET   getdomainname 0
> 89938 db2      CALL  open(0xbfbfc7e8,0x801,0)
> 89938 db2      NAMI  "/compat/linux/home/dtinst/sqllib/tmp/R1116180A8942"
> 89938 db2      NAMI  "/home/dtinst/sqllib/tmp/R1116180A8942"
> 89938 db2      RET   open JUSTRETURN
> 89938 db2      CALL  getdomainname(0xbfbfc930,0xbfbfc938)
> 89938 db2      RET   getdomainname 0
> 89938 db2      CALL  open(0xbfbfc7e8,0x801,0)
> 89938 db2      NAMI  "/compat/linux/home/dtinst/sqllib/tmp/R1116180A8942"
> 89938 db2      NAMI  "/home/dtinst/sqllib/tmp/R1116180A8942"
> 89938 db2      RET   open JUSTRETURN
> 89938 db2      CALL  getdomainname(0xbfbfc930,0xbfbfc938)
> 89938 db2      RET   getdomainname 0
> 89938 db2      CALL  open(0xbfbfc7e8,0x801,0)
> 89938 db2      NAMI  "/compat/linux/home/dtinst/sqllib/tmp/R1116180A8942"
> 89938 db2      NAMI  "/home/dtinst/sqllib/tmp/R1116180A8942"
> 89938 db2      RET   open JUSTRETURN
> 89938 db2      CALL  getdomainname(0xbfbfc930,0xbfbfc938)
> 89938 db2      RET   getdomainname 0
> 89938 db2      CALL  open(0xbfbfc7e8,0x801,0)
> 89938 db2      NAMI  "/compat/linux/home/dtinst/sqllib/tmp/R1116180A8942"
> 89938 db2      NAMI  "/home/dtinst/sqllib/tmp/R1116180A8942"
> 89938 db2      RET   open JUSTRETURN
> 89938 db2      CALL  getdomainname(0xbfbfc930,0xbfbfc938)
> 89938 db2      RET   getdomainname 0
> 89938 db2      CALL  open(0xbfbfc7e8,0x801,0)
> 89938 db2      NAMI  "/compat/linux/home/dtinst/sqllib/tmp/R1116180A8942"
> 89938 db2      NAMI  "/home/dtinst/sqllib/tmp/R1116180A8942"
> 89938 db2      RET   open JUSTRETURN
> 89938 db2      CALL  getdomainname(0xbfbfc930,0xbfbfc938)
>
> Google seems to be suspiciously silent about DB2 on FreeBSD.
>

JUSTRETURN in linuxolator means ENOENT - 'No such file or directory' 
error.


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Have fun!
chd