RE: Question re CRS installation and Redhat Linux Versioning

I have seen it where it was necessary to downgrade some of the libraries to what oracle wants.

... believe or not, on that system 'version or later' was assumed, but would not work.

Of course, it is best to be able to verify that, but if you can't wait, you can put them in, try it, and if it doesn't work put it back the way it is.

Joel Patterson
Database Administrator
joel.patterson_at_crowley.com
x72546
904 727-2546

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[mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of William Wagman Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2007 12:03 PM
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Subject: Question re CRS installation and Redhat Linux Versioning

Greetings,

I realize this is an Oracle list but I am hoping someone may be experienced enough with Linux to assist me here. I am attempting to install CRS 10.2.0.1.0 on two separate clusters both running RHEL4 and configured identically. I can install CRS successfully but after installation some operations, srvctl stop nodeapps -n <node_name> for example, there are others, cause the CRS to 'hang' on one node. I have an SR open with Oracle (it's been a month now with no resolution) and they are finally coming to questioning the Linux installation which, as I understand it and according to the installation guide, the cluvfy utility and the RDA pre-checks is configured correctly but I am beginning to wonder.

First, The Redhat 4 must also be at RHEL AS/ES 4.0 2.6.9-5.0.5.EL or higher. On my systems uname -a returns... Linux barnaby 2.6.9-55.ELsmp #1 SMP Fri Apr 20 17:03:35 EDT 2007 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux?

As to RPMS....
We have binutils-2.15.92.0.2-22 - oracle wants binutils-2.15.92.0.2-10.EL4
We have control-center-2.8.0-12.rhel4.5 - oracle wants control-center-2.8.0-12
We have gcc-3.4.6-8 - oracle wants gcc-3.4.3-9.EL4 We have gcc-c++-3.4.6-8 - oracle wants gcc-c++-3.4.3-9.EL4 We have glibc-2.3.4-2.36 - oracle wants glibc-2.3.4-2 We have glibc-common-2.3.4-2.36 - oracle wants glibc-common-2.3.4-2 We have libstdc++-3.4.6-8 - oracle wants libstdc++-3.4.3-9.EL4 We have libstdc++-devel-3.4.6-8 - oracle wants libstdc++-devel-3.4.3-9.EL4
We have make-3.80-6.EL4 - oracle wants make-3.80-5 We have pdksh-5.2.14-30.3 - oracle wants pdksh-5.2.14-30 We have sysstat-5.0.5-15.0.1.el4 - oracle wants sysstat-5.0.5-1 We have xscreensaver-4.18-5.rhel4.14 - oracle wants xscreensaver-4.18-5.rhel4.2
We have openmotif21-2.1.30-11.RHEL4.6 - oracle wants openmotif21-2.1.30-11.RHEL4.2 (required to install Oracle demos) We have libaio-0.3.105-2 - oralce wants libaio-0.3.102-1

As I understand it we are compliant. I am also concerned that the analyst working on the SR said "what I am concern is that the some of the packages required ends with EL4. I am not sure what the EL4 means, and I also am not sure what rhel4.5 means for control-center-2.8.0-12.rhel4.5." That comment concerns me a bit, I asked him to verify with someone in the Linux group. In the meantime if someone can confirm for me that we are in fact on a supported version and also answer the questions the analyst proposed I would be most appreciative.

Thanks.

Bill Wagman
Univ. of California at Davis
IET Campus Data Center
wjwagman_at_ucdavis.edu
(530) 754-6208
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