Re: 10g install on XP fails (dbca)

Are you at SP1?
You have a network card? It's configured with TCP/IP, and your IP address is statically declared, and not DHCP?
And you're logged on as someone with local administrator privileges?

That's all just preliminary, however. Your problem I suspect (but fair goes: I'm guessing) is simply with that JRE installation. It's not needed for Oracle, and is likely to confuse things. Take a clean Windows installation, patch it to SP1, insert CD, and it works. Usually. Install your own Java beforehand, however, and there's no telling which Java the dbca will turn to. I dare say you can muck around with paths and JAVA_HOME environment settings, but apart from that, start clean, and don't try and do your own Java thing.

If this is a home PC that you want to learn Oracle on, and you don't/can't want to re-install Windows, then run Oracle inside a VMware virtual machine. That can be as clean as you like, and it won't muck up your physical machine or make cleanliness demands on it.

Regards
HJR "steveh" <steve_at_rwxltd.co.uk> wrote in message news:c44620a0.0406090218.4b085935_at_posting.google.com...
> Hi All,
>
> I'm having problems installing 10g on XP pro.
> I've tried on two pcs, one with 256Mb and one with 512Mb.
>
> The error is the same on both, it's dbca.
>
> JRE 1.4 is installed.
>
>
> Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
> (C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.
>
> C:> dbca
>
> Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError:
com/inprise/vbroker/C
> ORBA/portable/Skeleton
> at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass0(Native Method)
> at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:537)
> at

java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:12
> 3)
> at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader.java:251)
> at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$100(URLClassLoader.java:55)
> at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:194)
> at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
> at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:187)
> at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:289)
> at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:274)
> at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:235)
> at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(ClassLoader.java:302)
> at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass0(Native Method)
> at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:537)
> at

java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:12
> 3)
> at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader.java:251)
> at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$100(URLClassLoader.java:55)
> at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:194)
> at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
> at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:187)
> at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:289)
> at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:274)
> at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:235)
> at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(ClassLoader.java:302)
> at

oracle.sysman.assistants.dbca.backend.Host.<init>(Host.java:624)
> at oracle.sysman.assistants.dbca.ui.UIHost.<init>(UIHost.java:200)
> at

oracle.sysman.assistants.dbca.ui.InteractiveHost.<init>(InteractiveHo
> st.java:54)
> at oracle.sysman.assistants.dbca.Dbca.getHost(Dbca.java:149)
> at oracle.sysman.assistants.dbca.Dbca.execute(Dbca.java:91)
> at oracle.sysman.assistants.dbca.Dbca.main(Dbca.java:169)
>
> Any thoughts appeciated...
>
> Steve
Received on Wed Jun 09 2004 - 07:38:26 CDT