Re: Oracle 9 install on machine with Oracle 8 already installed

Thank you for the replies. I have now installed Oracle 9i by just setting ORACLE_BASE and ORACLE_HOME. All seems well except the installer hung at the end - I never got to see the 'End of Installation' screen that I was expecting. At the point it hung, someone that was connecting to an Oracle 8 database on the same machine reported that they got a message along the lines of "no TNS listener" (sorry, I don't have the exact message). Could the hanging of the installation program and my colleagues error be down to the installer trying to start the listener on port 1521, which is the same port that the Oracle 8 listener was listening on? Also at the same time as the installer hung, a large core file appeared in the oracle user's home directory and the system console reported that /export/home was full (probably due to the large core file!). I had no choice but to kill the installer. I'm just hoping that it had in fact finished and that the installation is OK.

Can anyone shed any light on what went wrong? Was it down to the Oracle8 listener? I want to have Oracle8 and Oracle9 running on the same machine. Do I need to have two listeners running - one for 8 and one for 9? On different ports?

There are no errors reported in the log file and the installer reports that the following all succeeded:
Oracle Net Configuration Assistant
Oracle Database Configuration Assistant
  Copying database files
  Initializing database
  Creating and starting oracle instance
  Completing database creation
Agent Configuration Assistant
Starting HTTP Server

OS is Solaris 8 with all pre-requisites stated in the Installation Guide met.

Again, any help greatly appreciated!!

Paul Received on Tue Jun 24 2003 - 11:43:46 CDT