Bad system call (core dumped) Solaris 11.2 (installation of Sybase 12.5.4)

Dear all,

I am trying to install Sybase ASE 12.5.4 on a Sun OS Solaris 11.2 (sparcv9) machine but I am getting the following messages when launching the setup file :

-bash-4.1$ ./setup
InstallShield Wizard

Initializing InstallShield Wizard...

Searching for Java(tm) Virtual Machine...
Bad System Call (core dumped)

I ran mdb to get more information and this is what I get:

ffbfee08 access+8(baeb9, 89bb4, ba4b0, ba4b0, 0, 9)
ffbfef00 __1cMPlatformImplWcreateTempSubDirectory6F_nHSString__+0x30(baeb9, 1, 0, b8800, 0, b99a8)
ffbfefb0 __1cIJVMFilesOwriteVerifyJar6M_v_+0xd8(1, b99a8, b99a8, 0, baeb8, 1)
ffbff078 __1cIJVMFilesGsearch6MrnQJVMMatchPtrDeque__v_+0x18(b0790, ffbff270, ffbff594, 1, 0, baeb8)
ffbff198 __1cILauncherHfindJVM6Fbb_v_+0xdc(1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1)
ffbff2b8 __1cMInstructionsHexecute6kM_i_+0x260(daf80, b8800, 0, 0, 4, b9a78)
ffbff5a8 __1cILauncherDrun6F_i_+0x20(b0760, 1, 7, 4, b9a78, b2e6c)
ffbff650 __1cILauncherOprocessCmdLine6FrknLStringDeque__i_+0xedc(ffbffb90, 0, 0, 1, 13, 0)
ffbffa28 __1cILauncherHprocess6FrnLStringDeque_rknHSString__i_+0x98(ffbffb90, ffbffb80, 400, e, b9871, 0)
ffbffac0 main+0x13c(1, ffbffc0c, ffbffc14, b0000, b9870, 1)
ffbffba8 _start+0xf8(0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0)

Somebody told me the access system call is deprecated in Solaris 11 and that I could verify this in /usr/include/sys/syscall.h but I don't have this file.

Could you confirm this? Would you have any idea where that file is and why my setup won't run? How could I troubleshoot this?

Thank you for your help. Cheers

First you need to find documentation that Sybase 12.5.4 is supported on Solaris 11.

Then you might get some help in troubleshooting.

Else the answer is always going to be "Update your version of Sybase" or "Use Solaris 10".

Thank you for your reply achenle.

Clearly you were right, somebody showed me this: infocenter.sybase.com/help/index.jsp?topic=/com.sybase.dc35889_1254/html/installsol/X22779.htm

It seems to say ASE 12.5.4 is compatible with Solaris 2.8 (therefore Solaris 8). I've also heard that it is 100% compatible with Solaris 9 and most likely with Solaris 10 too.

I tried to launch the setup of ASE 12.5.4 on a Solaris 10 machine and it worked all fine. Problem fixed then.

Thank you,
Regards,