Re: Oracle problem on Red Hat Linux 6.1

I managed to get Oracle8iR2 installed and running (on Redhat6.1) without any major problems. Will sit down and write up my notes into a howto in a few days. the hangup that caused me the most problems was setting swap file large enough to prevent the create database form hanging...

I used the howto for 8i (or original release) and that worked Ok, was at something like fwn.fortwayne.com,

ddf_dba_at_my-deja.com wrote:

> In article <yIM35.1364$tz6.76312012_at_news1.van.metronet.ca>,
> "Dennis Edward" <temp061900_at_ipipeline.net> wrote:
> > check $ORACLE_HOME/bin/oracle using "ls -l". Is the group execute bit
 set?
> > It should be. And ownership should normally be "oracle:dba".
>
> The owner, group and permissions on the $ORACLE_HOME/bin/oracle file
> should be:
>
> -rwsr-xr-x oracle dba
>
> They are; if they weren't I would get an "ORACLE not available" error.
> I don't. This is an initial installation of Oracle on Linux. I have 12
> years experience installing and administering Oracle on UNIX and I've
> not seen this problem before. I am seeing it now on Linux and I am not
> certain why. The environment is set for every user wanting to access
> the database so that is not an issue. Something else is happening, and
> I'd like to find out what. If anyone has had any experience with this
> error on Linux let me know what is happening and how to correct it.
> >
> > Did you perhaps try something like tar'ing the directory tree back as
> > oracle?
> >
>
> No, and I wouldn't try that, either.
>
> > <ddf_dba_at_my-deja.com> wrote in message
 news:8inq7o$5jk$1_at_nnrp1.deja.com...
> > > This is an interesting problem that I hope someone can help with.
 As
> > > the 'oracle' system user I can invoke SQL*Plus and everything runs
 as
> > > expected. However, when I connect to the system as any other user
 and
> > > attempt to run SQL*Plus the following message is generated:
> > >
> > > oraclePROTIME: error in loading shared libraries: libskgxp8.so:
 cannot
> > > open shared object file: No such file or directory
> > > ERROR:
> > > ORA-12547: TNS:lost contact
> > >
> > > I KNOW the file is there since, as I stated earlier, the 'oracle'
 system
> > > user can invoke SQL*Plus and everything runs fine. As far as I know
 the
> > > file permissions are set correctly and, as evidenced by the ability
 of
> > > 'oracle' to use SQL*Plus everything must be in place. What is
 causing
> > > this? Any insight would be most helpful.
> > >
> > > --
> > > David Fitzjarrell
> > > Oracle Certified DBA
> > >
> > >
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> >
> >
>
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> David Fitzjarrell
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>
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