Re: Upgrade 7.3.2.1 to 8.0.5 or 8.1.5 on DEC UNIX

Another way to disable Oracle Trace is to delete the *.DAT files in the otrace directory. This bug is documented on the Oracle Support Site and only affects some UNIX versions. I have seen it on Dec Unix and HP-UX.

Rob Duke
Database Administrator
Motherwell Information Systems

Julio Negueruela wrote:

> I reply through Norris' post:
>
> Norris escribió:
> > Burkhard Schultheis <bschultheis_at_tde-online.de> wrote:
> > : Hi,
> >
> > : our customer has Oracle 7.3.2.1 on DEC UNIX. We have found a big error
> > : in this version on DEC UNIX: Oracle writes trace files and loads this
> > : trace files into shared memory. After some time of working no new
> > : process can connect to the database. Then you cannot shutdown and
> > : startup Oracle! Now we know the environment variable to stop Oracle from
> > : writing these trace files, but we want to go ahead from this buggy
> > : version.
>
> I had a similar problem in the same machine and solved with the
> EPC_DISABLED var. Just, every user who connects in local mode must have
> set this var to TRUE.
> EPC_DISABLED=TRUE; export EPC_DISABLED
>
> And, in the listener entry, for those who connect through sqlnet:
>
> SID_LIST_LISTENER =
> (SID_LIST =
> (SID_DESC =
> (SID_NAME = <your_SID>)
> (ORACLE_HOME = <your_HOME>)
> (ENVS='EPC_DISABLED=TRUE') <--- Add this line.
> )
> [...]
> )
>
> Hope this help.
> --
> Julio Negueruela
> DBA Servicio Informático
> Universidad de La Rioja - Spain
> Telf: 941-299179 Fax: 941- 299180
> mailto:julio.negueruela_at_si.unirioja.es
Received on Tue Jun 15 1999 - 09:09:16 CDT