Re: problems installing Designer 6i repository

Rob Oonk wrote:

> Hi
>
> once again an effort to get a response to my problem:
>
> after a successfull installation of Oracle 8i enterprise edition and
> Designer 6i
> I created a user with sufficient priviliges (i've checked the requirements)
> to install the Designer repository.
>
> Nevertheless, when I hit the button to start the repository-install i get
> the following message:
> - You do not have Select privilege on SYS.V_$PARAMETERS view. The process
> cannot proceed -
>
> Logically i logged in as SYS and tried to grant the selectprivilege to the
> user, but this view does not exist, neither
> does SYS.V$PARAMETERS, so there's nothing to grant !!
>
> The nearest views in name are: SYS.V_$PARAMETER (without the S) and
> SYS.V_$PARAMETER2
>
> I already got 3 answers in the past that didn't work:
> 1. check the spelling ( so I did )
> 2. log in as SYS and grant the privilege to the designerowner (i wanted
> to, but the view doesn't exists, so...)
> 3. log in as SYS and create the view (i don't think that's an option
> ( )
>
> I would be very grateful if someone could solve this mystery for me, because
> i cannot imagine i'm the only one
> who has or had this problem !
>
> Rob

Hi,

    There is an oracle bug filed for this issue, Bug#1768441. It should be V_$parameter without the S. If you have access to metalink you can look it up there.

Michael Received on Tue Aug 07 2001 - 21:53:35 CEST