Re: Problems installing Oracle9i on Fedora (256 RAM)

From: Darius <dmedhora_at_yahoo.com>
Date: 18 Mar 2004 04:02:16 -0800
Message-ID: <26a5971.0403180402.196cab92@posting.google.com>

"DJ" <nospamplease_at_goaway.com> wrote in message news:<1p46c.20$f8.13_at_newsfe3-win.server.ntli.net>...
> "tojo" <Tojo_at_hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:MPG.1ac26e5480d5f8379896e2_at_news.t-online.de...
> > In article <26a5971.0403170347.206b6442_at_posting.google.com>,
> > dmedhora_at_yahoo.com says...
> > > HI everyone,
> > >
> > > First of all, is there any way I can install Oracle9i MANUALLY on
> > > Fedora Core 1,
> > > instead of using the Oracle Installer?
> > >
> > > Next, I tried installing Oracle9i on Fedora using ALL instructions
> > > from oracle-base.com and puschitz.com's articles and I tried about 20
> > > times. It worked just once.
> > >
> > > But after it worked once, I tried reinstalling because in the
> > > excitement of having gone so far as seeing 'Install successfull', I
> > > ignored any
> > > installation errors. So, I forgot to re-edit the ctx make file and
> > > just ignored
> > > all errors.
> > >
> > > I have only 256 Megs RAM and 2 Gigs of Swap! (software only option)
> > >
> > > I just cannot get the installer to install. It crashes all the time
> > > creating hs error pid log files..Is it the less RAM causing problems??
> > >
> > > And is it ok if I even accidently ignore the ins_oemagent.mk errors,
> > > and it installs fine thereafter? ( Which only happened once in 20 times
> that
> > > I got so far)
> > >
> > > Please help! awaiting your reply,Thanks!
> > >
> > > Terms
> > >
> > You cannot ignore the link errors and move on. You *have* to fix the
> > problems in the make file before continuing.
> >
> > -- Tom
> no you dont

Hi, ok, so I try a re-install. Trying to use as less RAM as possible by stopping many services, and using just the twm window manager, I removed all files, checked the environment, checked the kernel parameters, checked that i have java-1_3_1_11, got the necy rpms, relinked gcc, installed the 3006854 patch, updated oraparam.ini to change JRE_LOCATION, ran the installer and this is what happened:
1) It didn't crash at all! Good.
2) There were linking errors, many of em! Bad. Here they are:

---

Error invoking target of makefile ... ldap/lib/ins_ldap.mk

----ditto---                          ins_precomp.mk
                                      ins_net_client.mk
                                      also a plsql one 
                                      ins_sqlplus

So then I edited genclntsh and noticed:
# LD_SELF_CONTAINED=" -Z DEFS"
The doc says to change it from
LD_SELF_CONTAINED=" -Z DEFS"
to
LD_SELF_CONTAINED=""
But it was commented, so anyways, I uncommented it and made it "", and retried. It core dumped. I tried again, and then it created clntst9.a ( I hope ) But when I retried, it popped up with the same error. So i ignored it and then I got another bunch of errors later on:

Error invoking target of makefile ...ins_oemagent.mk (That I ignored as it says to ignore it in the doc)
Error invoking target of makefile ...ins_rdbms.mk

---ditto--                           ins_ctx

Here, I tried the fix which added $(LDFLAG)dl to the link in env_ctx.mk where INSO_LINK is defined. But, a "retry" failed again...so in essence, i ignored things all the way till the installer exited gracefully.

Then, as instructed it installed the patchset, but it gave me very familiar errors :)
Anyhow, after making Oracle Tools look at an alternative JRE, I tried to run dbca. I got a error:
"error in process $ORACLE_HOME/bin/orapwd". Which brought me back here to this group. Does anyone have any suggestions please? Thanks! Received on Thu Mar 18 2004 - 06:02:16 CST