Re: Too many Oracle kernel extensions on AIX ??

Hi

Check out doc 111578.1 onmetalink, it may answer your query.

Alistair

"Nick Buckley" <nicholas.buckley_at_gerlingncm.com> wrote in message news:4843635b.0310210726.288443c1_at_posting.google.com...
> Hi everyone,
>
> To all you kind Oracle folks, I'm an AIX sysdamin, not a DBA - hence
> the cross posting from comp.unix.aix.
>
> One of my DBA colleagues is having problems with an Oracle 8.1.7.2 to
> 8.1.7.4 upgrade on a P690 LPAR running AIX 5.1, ML03.
>
> Rooting around ( pun kind of intended ) I see that there appear to be
> FOUR "copies" - not sure what else to call them - of pw-syscall
> running.
>
> Every piece of Oracle documentation that I've been able to find refers
> to loading an extension ( in the singular ).
>
> Evidence ?
>
> /etc/loadext -q /etc/pw-syscall
>
> Oracle Kernel Extension Loader for AIX
> Copyright (c) 1998,1999 Oracle Corporation
>
> Extension /etc/pw-syscall found with kmid: 0x204cae4
>
> So far, so good - just a single extension. But,
>
> echo lke | kdb | grep pw-syscall returns:
>
> 1 05F5DD00 0204ABF8 00001024 00000273 /etc/pw-syscall
> 3 05F5D480 02049BC8 00001024 00000273 /etc/pw-syscall
> 5 05A26480 02048B98 00001024 00000273 /etc/pw-syscall
> 7 05A0BB00 02047B68 00001024 00000273 /etc/pw-syscall
>
> Could this 1:4 relationship be responsible for (amongst other things):
>
> >> ld: 0711-224 WARNING: Duplicate symbol: uiprrp
> >> ld: 0711-224 WARNING: Duplicate symbol: uiprrc
> >> ld: 0711-224 WARNING: Duplicate symbol: uiprrj
> >> ld: 0711-224 WARNING: Duplicate symbol: uiprnp
> >> ld: 0711-224 WARNING: Duplicate symbol: uiprgb
>
> >> When relinking Oracle Financials on Oracle 8.1.7.2 on AIX 5
>
> Other AIX boxes - running AIX 4.3.3 and 5.1 and Oracle 8 instances
> show a 1:1 relationship.
>
> We have failed to remove these multiple extensions using both loadext
> -u and slibclean.
>
> We do plan to reboot in the near future. We will disable the
> /etc/inittab entry and view the state of the kernel before and after a
> manual load of the extension [ not extensions ;-) ]
>
> In the meantime, has anybody encountered this situation before ?
>
> Is there another way to flush out these extensions if loadext -u and
> slibclean wont do it ?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Nick.
>
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Received on Tue Oct 21 2003 - 10:57:26 CDT