Re: Installing Oracle 8.1.7 on Linux

Try this!

Steps for cleaning up after a failed 8i installation:

1. Backup all important files. (This includes the orainst.loc and init.ora files and any data files that have not already been backed up.)
2. Remove the $ORACLE_HOME directory.
3. Remove the oraInventory directory. (Most of the time it will be in the $ORACLE_BASE directory.)
4. Remove the orainst.loc file. This file is in different places depending on which OS you have. (Sun is /var/opt/oracle, LINUX is in /etc.)
5. Check all inviroment variables and shared memory settings.
6. Re-run runInstaller.

Definitions of the install directories:

oraInventory The directory where Oracle keeps the information on which oracle

                packages are installed. The files in this directory are
binary
                so they are not modifiable.
orainst.loc The file that tells the installer where to find the oraInventory
                directory. (You need several copies of this file. One for
each
                set of binaries.)
oratab  This file keeps the information on which databases are on this
                a system. It also holds the information on which instances
                to start automatically.

good luck!

Wouter Verhelst <wouter_at_rock.dezevensprong.local> a écrit dans le message : 0h7aa9.7j2.ln_at_127.0.0.1...
> I had 8.1.6 on my system until I could not find the right JDBC-drivers
> for my JDK, but then I discovered that 8.1.7 already had them.
>
> So I downloaded the file "linux81701.tar" and tried to upgrade my
> installation.
>
> However, I got an error somewhere halfway (I don't remember which
> one), so I aborted the installation, with the intention to
> restart. When I then did that, the installer no longer wanted to run,
> giving a segfault on every try. It's been some weeks now, I removed
> every reference to Oracle on my system that I could find, but still no
> luck. Could anyone help me out?
>
> The output of the installer can be found at
> http://users.pandora.be/wouter.verhelst/output
>
> (it's not really much, but quite usenet-unfriendly ;-)
>
> --
> wouter dot verhelst at advalvas in belgium
> #ifdef NOT_A_GODDAMN_YANK
> { 0x10, "Minimise Delay" },
> #else
> { 0x10, "Minimize Delay" },
> #endif
> /* ipchains.c */
Received on Wed Apr 04 2001 - 14:26:13 CDT