DS4.2 SP7 setup on AIX 6.1 Power PC

dataservices administration
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Hi all,
launching setup.sh from AIX 6.1, soon gives a weird error when calling perl:

“An offset in the .loader section header is too large”

using the built in perl is not giving the same error. The only particular thing is that the archive file was unzipped on a windows box (the AIX administrator did not find any utility to explode it locally on the AIX box).
Did any of you hit the same problem?

Thank you in advance
Claudio

CLS69 :it: (BOB member since 2009-06-11)

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That may well be the problem. Was the original file a tarball - did the filename end tar.gz ?

I’m quite surprised at your Administrator - it should just be a simple:

gunzip {filename}.tar.gz

tar -xvf {filename}.tar

The only issue may be long filepaths in the tar - in which case you may need to installl the GNUtar (gtar) Linus utility using rpm.

Hope that helps.

Simple Simon :uk: (BOB member since 2007-09-07)

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Thank you for your reply. An update on this: we had the job done through just yesterday night (yes, it was Sunday. What’s best than an insane firefight on an AIX box?).
Issue was the extremely outdated unzip package. The system administrator never considered it guilty until all the rabbits were out of the cylinder.
Updating the package to a recent release solved the issue.

CLS69 :it: (BOB member since 2009-06-11)