Oracle-L: Oracle 9.2.0.1/2 on Mandrake 9

From: Boris Dali <boris_dali_at_yahoo.ca>
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 10:53:37 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.005013C3.20021112105337@fatcity.com>

Hope not everybody is off to OOW :(

Did anybody get the above combo working? I know that Oracle is not certified on Mandrake and I don't care... as long as I can make it work that is

Here are the facts:
1) HW: One way 2.4 GH box with 1GB DDR RAM, plenty of disk space
2) SW/OS: Mandrake 9 / 2.4.19-16mdk enterprise w/ the latest security patches applied
3) Plenty of swap (as per free, swapon -s, cat /proc/swaps) and /temp

Here's `rpm -q gcc cpp glibc-devel kernel-headers binutils` output:

gcc-3.2-1mdk
package cpp is not installed
glibc-devel-2.2.5-16mdk
kernel-headres-2.4.18-41mdk
binutils-2.12.90.0.15-1mdk

OUI came up smoothly (had some troubles to convince it to come up with 8.1.7 on the same box - previous install, first OH). I went with Enterprise DB/SoftwareOnly option

Problem:
1) at 61% on <PL/SQL Embedded Gateway install> error pops up:
"Error in writting to
$OH/wwg/admin/images/credits.gif"

fuser on credits.gif doesn't show that somebody is using it
deleteting it (and/or the whole $OH/wwg directory) doesn't help as OUI simply re-creates them and gets stuck on the same error message
oraInventory log doesn't add any additional info
tried to re-install it I think a dosen times by now in diff. variations (Custom/w seed DB/ etc.) with the same result
applying 9.2.0.2 patch and re-install of the same component didn't help eigther (not sure why I expected it to help, but I seemed to exaust all the other options)...

Is it a bad disk sector (no idea how to check disk for bad sectors on Linux)? Is it Oracle's corrupted jar file (no idea how to find name of the jar and test it for corruptions)?

2) The above error wouldn't bother me too much (no other errors at the install phase), but I also got stuck at the relinking phase which seem to be related to the error above.

The reason is that my $OH/rdbms/lib is missing config.c, opimai.o, ssoraed.o, ttcsoi.o and may be others. So cancelling/ignoring PL/SQL Embedded Gateway component (what is it anyway? Sounds like Transparent gateways to Bill/Informix/DB2 etc. to me) seem to cancel installation of some critical files needed for relinking...

Coping config.c from 8.1.7.4 (different binary tree/OH, even diff OS acount) doesn't seem to help:

make -f ins_rdbms.mk config

fails with infamous "Error 1" error. Coping config.o and the rest 3 o files missing and relinking via <relink oracle> or <make -f ins_rdbms.mk install> gets a little futher, but fails latter with the same "Error 1"

Reasons? Others seem to indicate 2 prime reasons: "-z defs" issue and binutils version:

a- "-z defs" in LD_SELF_CONTAINED inside $OH/genclntsh doesn't seem to be an issue in my case. Oracle automatically comments it out, but even if I uncomment it and re-run genclntsh I get the same result:

basename: too few arguments
Try 'basename --help'
cp: missing file arguments
Try 'cp --help'
...
Created $OH/lib/libclntst9.a

So not everything is 100%, but at least I got libclntst9.a generated eigther way

b- binutils? Not sure if it's still an issue in 9.2. Mine seems to be way higher than the one Oracle was ready to swallow in 9.1. I know for sure I didn't have a problem with 9.0.1 on Mandrake 8.0...

Net result so far: I can confirm that Oracle Client 9.2 works like a charm on Mandrake9 :(. As far as the rest, so far I fail to get oracle, orapwd and others in my $OH/bin...

Any help would be appreciated.

TIA,
Boris

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