Desginer 6i causing me grief

From: Alec Macdonell <amacdonell_at_usscript.com>
Date: Fri, 03 May 2002 12:09:38 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.00457AC3.20020503120938@fatcity.com>

I am upgrading from designer 2.1.2 to designer 6i 4.2. I have installed Designer on my win2k workstation and craeted a new instance on a Solaris box running SUn OS 8. My version of Oracle is 64-bit 8.1.7.3.

I closely follow the instruction in the install guide for creating a new repository. (The plan is to create a new repository on the Sun box then migrate the old 2.1.2 repository from the DG box.) However while running the Install Wizard in the Repository Admin tool the process freeze. No error message just a dead process. Logging into the Unix box and bringing up SQL*PLUS is also impossible. It just hangs there waiting. I do not have any errors in my alert logs and the only shutdown abort seems to clear the problem.

I have increased my rollbacks segments to 100M. I have increased my SHARED_POOL_SIZE to 64M. I have increased SYSTEM tablespace to 250M (though I can not see how running out of system tablespace would not at least raise an error.) I have not found any help on Metalink or from Oracle Support as of yet, so in a act of sheer desparation I have turned here in the forlorn hope that someone else has encountered this problem.

Questions:

What event would cause the database to hang without producing an error message? (If I had a place to start looking I could research the problem myself.)

Are there any hidden "gotchas" in the INIT file regarding Designer 6i? Steve, a co-worker of mine, seems to recall similar problems when he was installing designer 2.1.2 and traced them to the INIT file. However I have known Steve for most of my life and have come to the conclusion he is a throughly disreputable individual. :)

Thanks

Alec

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