this particular machine is running 6.3 with the kernal compiled to handle fbdev... but I have tried running it on an smp machine running 6.4 and also on a single processor machine with the same results... I have already tries the IBM howto's which offer no help at all... Surjit

-----Original Message----- From: Lenz Grimmer [SMTP:grimmer@suse.de] Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2000 3:14 PM To: 'suse-linux-e@suse.com' Subject: RE: [SLE] install problems with IBM Visual Age for Java 3.*

Hi,

On Tue, 1 Aug 2000, Bains, Surjit (London) wrote:

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no good I tried that ... I get /proc/sys/vm/heap-stack-gap: No such file or directory ...

So this is not the default kernel from SuSE Linux 6.4? What are you running?

...

hmmm... when I try the ide from /ibmVAJ/ide/program/ directly i get... VisualAge for Java (c) Copyright IBM Corp. 1991, 1999

Startup Diagnostics:

1) Primitive failed in: PlatformFunction>>#call due to OS error1 2) Primitive failed in: SciSocketManager class >>#primitivePlatform due to OS error1 3) Primitive failed in: Object>>#at: due to index out of range in arguement 1 4) Error accessing../repository/ivj.dat: Repository Primitive failed: Check that the primitives are available on your path 5) Primitive failed in:PlatformFunction>>#callWith:with:with:with:with:with: due to General protection fault 6) Primitive failed in:PlatformFunction>>#callWith:with:with:with:with:with: due to General protection fault An error occurred while attempting to create a browser. A recursive error has occured. An error occurred while attempting to create a browser. A recursive error has occured. An error occurred while attempting to create a browser. A recursive error has occured. An error occurred while attempting to create a browser. A recursive error has occured. ... this loops indefinitely

Too bad - I have never tested Visual Age. And I am afraid, I do not have the time to test this right now :(

Sorry. Maybe there is some kind of FAQ or HOWTO on the IBM web site about this?

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