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Home -> Community -> Usenet -> c.d.o.server -> Re: 32bit oracle 8.0.5 installer hangs on 64bit HPUX-11 (V2200)
In article <01HW.B27D9D760000467601BEAE20_at_news.wxs.nl>,
"Ronald" <ronr_at_wxs.nl> writes:
> the installer just does not do anything. The process orainst.cm just is in the
> system and can not be killed; not even kill -9. There obviously is something
> wrong in the kernal but what ?
I posted something up about this a few weeks ago. It's a PFS bug to do with trying to create a file lock on the CD-ROM (I used "tusc" to trace the statements - wasn't sure if it was read-only lock or a read-write lock, but it caused exactly the same problem you described).
The solution ? I copied everything off the CD-ROM to a "spare" several hundred megs on hard disk and ran the installer from there and it worked perfectly (proving that it was a PFS bug - PFS on HP-UX is a *joke* - it's full of so many bugs, even with the latest PFS patch !).
> All recommended patches are installed.
> oracle support is working on this but no results so far.
They're hopeless obviously :-) I told Oracle UK about this about a month ago, but they seemed to say "hmmm...that's interesting" and did nothing about it. I'd also like to know where the mysterious "Legato Storage Manager" has gone - neither the 8.0.4 or 8.0.5 CD-ROMs on HP-UX 10.20 or 11.00 have the software on it !
> Did anybody
> successfully do this install ?
Yes, but there were many "nightmares" along the way other than the PFS bug, *including* two install scripts that had blatant syntax errors [so I copied the 8.0.4 versions (hey, that hard disk copy of the CD-ROM is very handy - you can fix things in the installer !) and it worked fine].
Another thing I did was to create .sl shared libraries out of the 90-odd .a's that are shipped with Oracle - when I relinked the executables, I got *massive* savings (both in disk space and RAM) with the binaries and everything ran perfectly, so I've got to question why Oracle don't ship .sl's with all the .a's ! Are they co-conspiraters with RAM and disk manufacturers ? :-)
If anyone's interested, I can post up the .a to .sl converter script - my "oracle" server binary is now under 1MB in size - is this a world record ? :-)
Richard K. Lloyd, E-mail: rkl_at_connect.org.uk Connect, WWW: http://www.connect.org.uk/Liverpool University,
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