"An unexpected error has been detected by HotSpot Virtual Machine" Error While Launching Installer

Today while installing Oracle 11gR2 (11.2.0.3) 64-bit on RHEL 6.1 64-bit on a VMWare box, I received the mentioned error. Looking up at MOS wasn't fruitful. However, this seems to be an RHEL bug.


bash-4.1$ ./runInstaller 
Starting Oracle Universal Installer...

Checking Temp space: must be greater than 120 MB.   Actual 27976 MB    Passed
Checking swap space: must be greater than 150 MB.   Actual 4031 MB    Passed
Checking monitor: must be configured to display at least 256 colors.    Actual 16777216    Passed
Preparing to launch Oracle Universal Installer from /tmp/OraInstall2013-07-01_03-12-27AM. Please wait ...bash-4.1$ #
# An unexpected error has been detected by HotSpot Virtual Machine:
#
#  SIGSEGV (0xb) at pc=0x00007f33a28c8d70, pid=2400, tid=139859082229520
#
# Java VM: Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (1.5.0_30-b03 mixed mode)
# Problematic frame:
# C  [ld-linux-x86-64.so.2+0x14d70]
#
# An error report file with more information is saved as hs_err_pid2400.log
#
# If you would like to submit a bug report, please visit:
#   http://java.sun.com/webapps/bugreport/crash.jsp
#

bash-4.1$ 

The workaround to the problem is to set "LD_BIND_NOW" environment variable to a value "1" as shown below and re-launch the installer. 

bash-4.1$ export LD_BIND_NOW=1

bash-4.1$ ./runInstaller 
Starting Oracle Universal Installer...

Checking Temp space: must be greater than 120 MB.   Actual 27339 MB    Passed
Checking swap space: must be greater than 150 MB.   Actual 4031 MB    Passed
Checking monitor: must be configured to display at least 256 colors.    Actual 16777216    Passed
Preparing to launch Oracle Universal Installer from /tmp/OraInstall2013-07-01_03-29-40AM. Please wait ...
bash-4.1$ 

According to a post on "The Gruff DBA" blog, this bug seems to have reported on  11.2.0.1 & 11.2.0.3 

:)