Re: Oracle8i Solaris x86 - oracle804inst.zip (0/1)

Just a thought - have you set the parameters in your /etc/system file to appropriate values? If the memory segments are sized correctly, this can cause the database creation to fail and then subsequent database operations would come back with an 'ORACLE not available' message.

For example, on a Solaris x86 with 64M of memory, the maximum shared memory segment size (SHMMAX) should be at leat 16M. Look in the Oracle 8.0.4 Install notes for Solaris x86 (which can be found on the Oracle web site) and verify that your Solaris systems settings are set for Oracle database configuration.

Just a thought.

• Lisa

On Sat, 14 Aug 1999 01:56:54 -0700, Anthony Yu <pyrosius_at_pacbell.net> wrote:

>
>I am encountering difficulties installing Oracle8i on Solaris 2.7 x86.
>Any help anyone reading this can offer would be appreciated.
>
>At first the installation of the product goes along quite a bit more
>smoothly than the port for Linux, with files named correctly, no
>hassles with the JRE, et cetera. However, after the that portion
>completes and runs the Net8 Configuration Assistant apparently
>successfully, it fails when running the Database Configuration
>Assistant, which I assume is the same tool that can be run as
>dbassist post-install. Basically, what happens is it gets about
>halfway done according to the progress bar and then fails with
>ORA-01034: ORACLE not available.
>
>A quick 'ps -ef | grep oracle' reveals
>/usr/local/oracle8i/bin/tnslsnr LISTENER -inherent
>as the only oracle process other than the installer running.
>Ignoring the error will cause the progress bar to inch up another
>couple of percent and then present the error again (several times).
>Running dbstart fails as well, though I don't believe I should have
>to do that considering this is a portion of the install. Is there
>something
>I need to start, files I need to touch and/or edit, or some other
>solution
>to the problem? I suspect it's an installer quirk, but still need to
>know
>how to solve the problem.
>
>Also, in the face of the idiosyncracies of the installer and failed
>installs which result from using it, what is the recommended way
>of cleanly uninstalling the product and of deleting halfway-created
>databases? Oracle seems to maintain some state between installs
>because even after removing /usr/local/oracle8i and
>/usr/local/oraInventory
>it remembers path names and believes the product is still installed.
>In the case of failed database creations (again because of ORA-01034)
>removing $ORAHOME/oradata/dbname also does not prevent
>dbassist from complaining that, say, 'testdb' exists even though it
>failed to install it last time.
>
>Once again, any help would be much appreciated.
>
>pyrosius_at_pacbell.net
>
Received on Sat Aug 14 1999 - 04:35:46 CDT