Re: NameServer on AIX 4/Oracle 7.3.4

Hi,

As far as I know (from Metalink) this is a known bug. It has been resolved in Oracle 8.
It's always in the next version.

Cheers,

Sybrand Bakker, Oracle DBA

evla_at_athylon.be wrote in message <7h96eb$s31$1_at_nnrp1.deja.com>...
>Hi,
>
>
>I had about the same problem on the same machines (I had Oracle Names
>on a Oracle7.3.2 db running on AIX4.2.1. I did not succeed in upgrading
>this Oracle7.3.2 Oracle Names Server to 7.3.4 and restarting it.
>
>After several contacts with Oracle Support, we did not find out what
>the real reason is and I chose to use another solution, viz. adding
>TNS_ADMIN to all the registries, pointing to a central Fileserver
>directory. This enables me to deploy every change in the SQL*Net
>settings very easily, and there is no need for maintaining a double
>Oracle Names Server database.
>
>Moreover, in 7.3.4 on aix it seems very simple to hang the Oracle Names
>Server, just address your nameserver port as if it were the listener
>port on that machine (by using a edited tnsnames.ora file) and the
>Names Server hangs!
>
>Finally, since we are running a.o. Oracle Applications here, with
>OEORPC, we had to go back to the 'classic' solution of sqlnet.ora +
>tnsnames.ora, since OEORPC is not compatible with Oracle Names. (see
>Oracle Order Entry Transaction Manager Troubleshooting Guide - Release
>10SC Production 14
>
>regards,
>
>Erwin Vanlangendonck
>OCP - Oracle Database Consultant
>Athylon nv
>http://www.athylon.be
>
>In article <7h8ecj$a4t$1_at_nnrp1.deja.com>,
> John.J.Kanagaraj_at_shell.com.bn wrote:
>> Hi all!
>>
>> We are in the process of upgrading 7.1.x and 7.3.2 instances on
>> (mostly) AIX 4.1.x servers to Y2K Compliant AIX 4.2.1 and Oracle 7.3.4
>> instances. Currently, we are using AIX 4.1/Oracle 7.3.2 based
>> nameservers (two of 'em) without the Config database, i.e. we register
>> TNS entries directly to the nameserver using scripts rather then
>> configuring them from a NETMAN database. The structure is a simple,
>> flat one (all Dbs with .world!)
>>
>> Everything else is Ok apart from the Nameservers. Starting up the
>> Oracle Nameserver on an AIX 4.2.1 box with Oracle 7.3.4 displays the
>> following error:
>>
>> NAMESCTL> start
>> Starting "/local/bin/oracle/7.3.4/bin/names"...server not started,
>> errors follow
>> TNS-12547: TNS:lost contact
>> TNS-12560: TNS:protocol adapter error
>> TNS-00517: Lost contact
>> IBM/AIX RISC System/6000 Error: 32: Broken pipe
>>
>> A chance test on another 7.3.4 server (same OS, same S/w) showed that
>> this does _not_ happen (i.e. nameserver starts up) when the caching
>> directory $ORACLE_HOME/network/names is _not_ present! Implementing
>> this (i.e. starting a nameserver without caching) means that the TNS
>> registry entries will have to loaded from a script everytime the
>> nameserver is started up (usually at boot time). We are not very
>> comfortable with that, although it is a workaround...
>>
>> I tried an upgrade from the installed 7.3.4.0.0 to the 7.3.4.3.0
>> patchset (latest on AIX?), of no avail - the patchset docu did not
>> mention any bugs in Nameserver anyway. A search of MetaLink showed
>that
>> this seems to a generic bug (observed on Solaris/ DG) and there seems
>> to be specific fixes provided. As usual, MetaLink is vague about what
>> exactly should be done). I am trying to raise a TAR with local Oracle
>> Support - this takes a while by the time the problem is acknowledged
>> and answered, so I am looking at the collective resources of the
>lists.
>> Have any of you come across this issue? If so, how did you sort thos
>> out? Were there any patchsets specific to AIX?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> John Kanagaraj
>> Brunei Shell Petroleum
>>
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Received on Tue May 11 1999 - 11:43:55 CDT