Re: Cannot create database (Oracle 8.1.7 on Redhat 7.1)

Hi!

I'm not totally sure about which glibc version RH 7.1 uses, but your problems seems like if you need to install the glibc patch from the oracle site.
Another tip is to unset the lang environment variable for the oracle user. I.e. "unset LANG". But I guess that you've already done that, as you managed to make the DBMS install in the first place. But that line has to be in the .bashrc of the oracle user as well. However, take a look at the SuSE website, where you'll find plenty of information on Oracle on Linux in general (and on SuSE in particular).

http://www.suse.de/en/support/oracle/index.html

and check the document for 8.1.7 on 7.1 or 7.2 (those are the SuSE version numbers).

//Björn

On 5 Oct 2001 17:27:01 -0700, lpetrov_at_yahoo.com (Lubomir Petrov) wrote:

>Hi all!
>
>I installed Oracle 8.1.7 Enterprise Edition on Redhat 7.1. The system
>has plenty of disk space and 256MB RAM, Pentium III. I did all the
>preparation needed and the install was successful.
>
>Now I'm trying to create the database. Here is what happens:
>1. Creating new database using dbassist - hangs at creating datafiles
>(I know the database creation is slow, but I waited for more than 10
>hours)
>2. Copying sample database using dbassist - hangs at initializing
>database (I've noticed that datafiles are already at the right place,
>but control files are not...)
>3. Creating the scripts in dbassist for creating new database and
>executing scripts (e.g. using svrmgrl) - svrmgrl hangs
>
>I haven't recompiled the kernel. Instead of this I did:
>echo 250 32000 100 128 > /proc/sys/kernel/sem
>echo 256000000 > /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax
>echo 256000000 > /proc/sys/kernel/shmall
>
>ORACLE_SID is set. There is nothing in alert<SID>.log file.
>
>What am I missing?
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>Lyubomir Petrov
Received on Sun Oct 07 2001 - 07:17:02 CDT