symlinks/OUI

From: Ray Stell <stellr_at_cns.vt.edu>
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 14:42:02 -0500
Message-ID: <20060315194202.GC19545@cns.vt.edu>

I discovered I had a corrupted oraInventory. I was not able to install or delete software. Somewhere in the discussion with ora support the analyst said, "OUI doesn't handle symlinks well," suggesting that my use of a symlink to oracle_home may have caused the corruption.

I did find things like this in oraInventory/logs/oraInstallxxx.err:

Ignoring Exception during de-installoracle.sysman.oii.oiil.OiilDeinstallException: Unable to delete file /opt/app/oracle/product/9.2.0/lib/stubs/libc.so

and sure enough, this directory structure here is a symlink."

Is this documented?

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Received on Wed Mar 15 2006 - 13:42:02 CST