hjr.pythian_at_gmail.com wrote:
> On Nov 2, 12:17 am, dbm..._at_gmail.com wrote:
>> On 1 stu, 12:10, hjr.pyth..._at_gmail.com wrote:
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>>> On Nov 1, 9:33 pm, dbm..._at_gmail.com wrote:
>>>> On 1 stu, 11:26, dbm..._at_gmail.com wrote:
>>>>> First of all, hello to the group !
>>>>> I have a problem installing Oracle 10g release 2 on RHEL 4 update 4. :
>>>>> (
>>>>> RHEL is fresh installation with next packages:
>>>>> a.. Server Configuration Tools (4 of 11)
>>>>> a.. Development Tools (57 of 75)
>>>>> a.. X Software Development (16 of 18)
>>>>> a.. Compatibility Arch Development Support (8 of 8)
>>>>> a.. Legacy Software Development (6 of 6)
>>>>> a.. Administration Tools (11 of 12)
>>>>> a.. System Tools (12 of 50)
>>>>> a.. libaio-0.3.105-2.x86_64.rpm
>>>>> Next, I've created oracle user that will run the installation and
>>>>> edited his
>>>>> profile. Also I have created two groups, oinstall and dba and edited
>>>>> kernel
>>>>> parameters.
>>>>> groupadd dba
>>>>> groupadd oinstall
>>>>> useradd -m oracle -g oinstall -G dba
>>>>> mkdir /oracle
>>>>> mkdir /oracle/10g
>>>>> chown -R oracle:oinstall /oracle
>>>>> mkdir /osource
>>>>> cat >> /home/oracle/.bash_profile << EOF
>>>>> #Added for Oracle Installation
>>>>> ORACLE_BASE=/oracle
>>>>> ORACLE_HOME=/oracle/10g/db_1
>>>>> ORACLE_SID=INFAT
>>>>> export ORACLE_BASE ORACLE_HOME ORACLE_SID
>>>>> PATH=/oracle/10g/bin:$PATH:.
>>>>> export PATH
>>>>> EOF
>>>>> cat >> /etc/sysctl.conf << EOF
>>>>> #Added for Oracle Installation
>>>>> kernel.shmall = 2097152
>>>>> kernel.shmmax = 2147483648
>>>>> kernel.shmmni = 4096
>>>>> kernel.sem = 250 32000 100 128
>>>>> fs.file-max = 65536
>>>>> net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range = 1024 65000
>>>>> net.core.rmem_default = 262144
>>>>> net.core.wmem_default = 262144
>>>>> net.core.rmem_max = 262144
>>>>> net.core.wmem_max = 262144
>>>>> EOF
>>>>> Installation itsefl is successfull but when it comes to the linking
>>>>> part, it
>>>>> just breaks with errors on next sceenshoots:
>>>>> http://aycu16.webshots.com/image/31775/2000600490498948133_fs.jpg
>>>>> http://aycu16.webshots.com/image/30975/2000609142436376501_fs.jpg
>>>>> http://aycu26.webshots.com/image/33945/2000621709332438227_fs.jpg
>>>>> http://aycu07.webshots.com/image/31606/2006214369960489243_fs.jpg
>>>>> http://aycu03.webshots.com/image/33762/2006205106893786925_fs.jpg
>>>>> http://aycu33.webshots.com/image/34192/2006225690369446577_fs.jpg
>>>>> Please help !! :((((
>>>> I fogot to say that RedHat is 64bit and so is Oracle.
>>> You also forgot to say you're using my guide athttp://www.dizwell.com/prod/node/728
>>> !!
>>> Shame you didn't feel able to ask questions about the script on the
>>> site where you got it. We don't spam, you know: you can part with a
>>> valid email address and get precisely four emails from us in 3 months!
>>> Although you've cut-and-pasted most of my rootprep.sh script, you
>>> don't seem to have done the sysctl -p bit which the original does.
>>> Presumably, that was just a bit of concision on your part?
>>> I'd first suspect that your installation wasn't quite the same as
>>> mine: did your installation size get reported as 4,055MB or not? If
>>> not, we have a problem. And I suspect I know what it is, because
>>> you'll get these sorts of error if you're not using the operating
>>> system I documented to use! That article discussed using Centos 4.4 or
>>> OEL 4.4 -that is, Update 4 of the fourth version of those OSes. If
>>> you're using update 1, 2 or 3, you can run into this problem, the fix
>>> for which is to do an rpm -Uvh glibc-devel-2.3.4-2.9.i386.rpm (yup,
>>> that's the 32-bit version of the libraries, even on a 64-bit OS). But
>>> I'd recommend downloading afresh the correct release of the OS, if
>>> indeed that is the issue.
>>> Apart from that, and since I know the installation works just fine
>>> otherwise I'd have documented workarounds for these sorts of issue,
>>> I'd suspect your installation software next: again, a fresh download
>>> might be in order. What number of blocks did you get reported when you
>>> unpacked the cpio? The original article tells you what answer you
>>> *should* have got.
>>> Other than the above, I haven't a clue: if you use the same OS as me
>>> and select the same package groups as me and install the same libaio
>>> as me, the rules of deterministic software demand that we end up
>>> achieving the same outcome! I can only re-iterate that I document what
>>> happens to me, exactly and without missing out minor details like the
>>> whole thing blowing up!- Sakrij citirani tekst -
>>> - Prikaži citirani tekst -
>> Oh I'm so sorry.. :( First of all, I wanna thank you for that guide
>> of yours ! ;)) Sorry I was being so rude.
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>> I have to say that your blog is amazing. You really helped me with
>> that guide and with many others. ;) I've installed couple of times
>> Oracle using this guide and your scripts on RHEL 4 and never had any
>> problems. But never on RedHat 4 update 4 though. :(
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>> So, I was installing Oracle using your guide this time also.
>> Everything looks fine, I got exact nuber of blocks when unpacked cpio
>> (those who wanna know what is that number read the blog of the
>> men :)), but the linking part fails. :( I would use some other OS but,
>> i'm sorry to say that, it has to be on this one. :(
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>> Maybe some other packages need to be installed, i dont know. I found
>> many artices regarding this problem but none of them helps. :(
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>> Please, if someone has the solution to this help me, because i'm
>> getting an frustrating ulcer. :)
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> What bits about my earlier post did you not understand?
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> You're using Update 1, 2 or 3, not 4.4 of the OS. Therefore, you will
> have to add in the deprecated libraries the exact name of which I
> mentioned before.
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> I thought it was pretty clear myself: no need to appeal for "someone
> having the solution". You already have it.
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You will also get these relink errors if your ORACLE_BASE is exported
incorrectly. What I normally do is to ignore all this errorrs, and then
afterwards do a "relink all" from the ORACLE_HOME/bin directly. I did
many installs ifnoring them and then relinking manually afterwards
without an error
Lodewicus
Received on Thu Nov 08 2007 - 03:38:00 CST
