Re: Oracle9i on Suse Linux

Jonathan,

I saw almost exactly the same thing with 512MB , 512MB swap, Suse Linux 7.1 also..
Some stuff that springs to mind:
Did you dynamically change the SHMMAX setting before the install and if so, did you make the same change once the machine had rebooted? When you're prompted for the JDK location don't you specify the location of the Blackdown JDK files?

This is from memory with no way to check so excuse any mistakes =)

Regards,

Mike

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I installed Oracle9i on Suse Linux 7.1 (384MB RAM, 400MB swap), and ran into a bit of a snag. The install ran fine until the end when the database creation assistant attempted to start the seed database. At that point I received an "ORA-03113: End of File on Communication Channel" error, and my Linux box froze up. Having Linux freeze up is a pretty rare event in itself, but I'm really wondering what caused the error. After rebooting, I was able to run the database creation assistant, create another database, and start that one. I then tried to manually start the seed database, and received the same ORA-03113 error. Could this somehow be related to memory? Was it too much to have the installer and the creation assistant running at the same time?

A couple of other oddities I noticed:

During the install, I was asked to specify a location for a JDK. I dutifully created a directory and typed in its path, but the installer never actually put any files into it. Why did it ask me for a directory that it wasn't going to use?

When I run the oraenv script, it doesn't create an ORACLE_HOME environment variable. Instead of adding $ORACLE_HOME/bin to my path, it adds the full path to the bin directory. Is $ORACLE_HOME going away?

Best regards,

Jonathan Gennick
mailto:jonathan_at_gennick.com * 906.387.1698 http://Gennick.com * http://MichiganWaterfalls.com * http://MetalDrums.org

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