Re: Oracle8i Solaris x86

Just a quick thank you note to all who offered advice. It was in fact the shared memory segment setting which seemed to cause dbassist to fail in the installer.

pyrosius_at_pacbell.net

Anthony Yu 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 Mon Aug 16 1999 - 01:52:14 CDT