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Linking Fails With "ld: 0706-010 The binder was killed by a signal: Segmentation fault" On AIX 6.1 And AIX 7.1 (Doc ID 1264074.1)

Last updated on FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Applies to:

Oracle Database - Enterprise Edition - Version 10.2.0.1 to 11.2.0.3 [Release 10.2 to 11.2]
Enterprise Manager Base Platform - Version 10.2.0.2 to 10.2.0.5 [Release 10.2]
Oracle Database Cloud Schema Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database Exadata Express Cloud Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database Exadata Cloud Machine - Version N/A and later
IBM AIX on POWER Systems (64-bit)
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The problem below appears to affect Oracle installations on AIX servers running:

AIX 6.1 TL2 SP10 (6100-02-10-1036) and higher
AIX 6.1 TL3 SP7 (6100-03-07-1036) and higher
AIX 6.1 TL4 SP7 (6100-04-07-1036) and higher
AIX 6.1 TL5 SP3 (6100-05-03-1036) and higher
AIX 6.1 TL6 (all SP levels)
AIX 7.1 (no TL installed)

The problem does not appear to affect:

AIX 6.1 TL2 SP9 or lower
AIX 6.1 TL3 SP6 or lower
AIX 6.1 TL4 SP6 or lower
AIX 6.1 TL5 SP2 or lower

However, a few customers have reported this issue on lower SP levels.


Symptoms


While installing Oracle10g Release 2 (10.2), Oracle11g Release 1 (11.1) or Oracle11g Release 2 (11.2) on an AIX server running AIX 6.1 or AIX 7.1, the following error may occur:

INFO:
ld: 0706-010 The binder was killed by a signal: Segmentation fault
Check for binder messages or use local problem reporting procedures.

INFO: make: 1254-004 The error code from the last command is 254.

Stop.

INFO: make: 1254-004 The error code from the last command is 2.

Stop.

INFO: End output from spawned process.
INFO: ----------------------------------
INFO: Exception thrown from action: make
Exception Name: MakefileException
Exception String: Error in invoking target 'agent nmb nmo nmhs' of makefile '/u01/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/sysman/lib/ins_emagent.mk'.


More specifically, the "ld: 0706-010" error may occur when running the following command:

% make -f $ORACLE_HOME/sysman/lib/ins_emagent.mk relink_sharedobj SHAREDOBJ=libnmemso


Using 'truss' to trace this command generates output similar to this:

:
15925416: 20512937: kopen("/usr/lib/glink64.o", O_RDONLY) = 31
15925416: 20512937: fstatx(31, 0x0FFFFFFFFFFFCBF0, 176, 0) = 0
15925416: 20512937: shmat(31, 0x0000000000000000, 6144) = 0x0700000300000000
15925416: 20512937: __libc_sbrk(0x0000000000010020) = 0x000000011161E140
15925416: 20512937: __libc_sbrk(0x0000000000010020) = 0x000000011162E160
15925416: 20512937: __libc_sbrk(0x0000000000010020) = 0x000000011163E180
15925416: 20512937: __libc_sbrk(0x0000000000010020) = 0x000000011164E1A0
15925416: 20512937: __libc_sbrk(0x0000000000010020) = 0x000000011165E1C0
15925416: 20512937: __libc_sbrk(0x0000000000010020) = 0x000000011166E1E0
15925416: 20512937: _getpid() = 15925416
15925416: 20512937: lseek(0x0000000000000003, 0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000001) = 0x0000000000002252
:
15925416: 20512937: kread(0x0000000000000003, 0x00000001102C14B8, 0x0000000000001000) = 0x0000000000001000
15925416: 0x00000000: "\n"
15925416: 20512937: shmat(4, 0x07F0000000000000, 2048) = 0x07F0000000000000
15925416: Received signal #11, SIGSEGV [default]
15925416: *** process killed ***
:


The following error may also occur:

ld: 0711-711 ERROR: Input file $ORACLE_HOME/lib//libnmemso.so is empty. The file is being ignored.


NOTE

To verify which AIX version is running, use the command:

% oslevel -s

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