Info on the linux distro, glibc, kernel level etc would help. If you're on Red
Hat 9, you're in untested waters. Workarounds (unsupported):

For the java installer and java based tools, setting
LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5 will work with RH9 for non-SMP systems

DON'T create the tools catalog as part of the install.

after the install, modify your <instance>/sqllib/userprofile and
<DAS>/das/userprofile to add the export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5

then re-start the DAS and instance and create your tools catalog db (if you
want to).

This is currently unsupported.

Tony wrote:

> I have installed DB2 V8.1 WSE on Linux. Everything worked fine. But when I
> issued the CREATE TOOLS CATALOG command, it just hung and kept one of the
> CPUs 100% busy. I had to kill the process. The tablespaces were created but
> the tables were not. The same thing happened when I try to drop the tools
> catalog. Anyway I can troubleshoot this?
>
> I was able to create the tools catalog on a different Linux box with no
> problem. It is running V8.1 ESE.