We don't currently support 9i, will with our second release cycle. We do support 8.1.6 and 8.1.7, and 8.1.7 includes the INSO filters for InterMedia in the Linux version (finally!).
So there's no compelling need to use 9i at the moment. The one problem I know about is that "delete" is now a reserved word and we have a ton of object types that define a procedure with that name, and a ton of references to them. So we decided to hold off.
However ... I know at least one person, after experimenting with editing the package definitions for the kernel, who managed to get the kernel installed (he didn't have time to edit all the references not to mention all the other packages in the toolkit).
So ... something else is going on.
What's your stacksize parameter set to in your nsd.tcl file? The driver needs a lot of stack space ...
