Re: Report - Installing Oracle on SuSE Linux 7.1

Jared,

So - did your use ReiserFS for your datafiles? did you go raw for the online redo logs? Stick with extfs2 for your boot partition? did you use the 2.2.18 or the 2.4.1 kernel how much ram in the box, # of hard drives?

how about posting the dmesg and maybe a df?

insomniac minds want to know :)

Paul

Jared Still wrote:
>
> As promised, here are my experiences installing Oracle on
> SuSE Linux 7.1
>
> Through version 7.0, installing 8i on SuSE was apparently a
> piece of cake.
>
> It was somewhat difficult on version 7.1, but not impossible.
>
> The problem lies in a critical library in Linux systems, glibc.
>
> In SuSE 7.1, the latest and greates version of glibc is used,
> version 2.2.
>
> Oracle for Linux however is compiled with glibc 2.1.3, and that
> presents somewhat of a problem. I'll get to the details later though, as
> there were earlier but less complicated problems to deal with.
>
> First of all, you must get the Oracle EE 8.1.7 edition. If you are
> downloading, that can be somewhat tricky.
>
> The file is ~500 Meg. Somewhere along the route, the network
> connection was getting reset, and I could never seem to finish
> the download.
>
> A perusal of download.com with a search for 'download managers'
> revealed quite a list. These programs deal with broken connections
> by restarting the download from the last bit received.
>
> I tried one promising contender. It failed however when it was unable
> to deal with the large size of it's own temporary files.
>
> The next one I tried was 'ReGet', and I highly recommend it, simply
> because it worked.
>
> Onward and upward.
>
> The java sdk that comes with SuSE is from IBM, and it has caused
> me problems before. Replace the installed java with Java 2, also
> known by it's version number of 1.3.
>
> A note on MetaLink says that the problem with this version of
> Java can be overcome simply by unsetting the environment
> variable 'LANG'.
>
> Just install the latest Java, you'll want it anyway.
>
> Once you have that done, untar file linux81701.tar into your
> staging area, and run the installer.
>
> Do not check the option to create a database after the install, as
> it won't work. This is due to the glibc problem mentioned earlier.
>
> Oracle will install Ok, and everything appears to link properly, but
> don't believe it. It won't work, you will see many ORA-3113 errors
> if you try to create a database.
>
> More Java problems. The runtime that the Oracle installer just
> setup for you won't work.
>
> Go to www.blackdown.org and pick yourself up the 1.1.8 Java
> runtime for glibc 2.1.3. I forget exactly where it's located, but the file
> name is jre118_v3-glibc-2.1.3.tar.bz2
>
> Install this version of the java runtime in $ORACLE_HOME/../jre
> and use symbolic links to make it point $ORACLE_HOME/../jre/1.1.8
> or just overwrite the current runtime directory if you are so inclined.
>
> I personally have an aversion to destroying software in such
> a cavilier manner however.
>
> Think you're done yet?
>
> Not a chance.
>
> Now you have to take care of the glibc problem.
>
> There is a patch for it, and it is unsupported. There should be
> a supported version soon.
>
> The patch can be found at :
> http://www.suse.de/en/support/oracle/db/817_71.html
>
> The name of the patch file is glibc-2.1.3-stubs.tar.gz.
> Just follow the directions contained in the README file that
> is with the patch, and Oracle should be ready to go.
>
> There, that didn't hurt much, did it?
>
> Jared
>
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