Re: Perfect Installation but hardly anything works
From: Dave Erwin <erwin_at_lmsc.lockheed.com>
Date: Sat, 3 Sep 94 16:21:24 GMT
Message-ID: <erwin-030994091848_at_129.197.63.49>
Date: Sat, 3 Sep 94 16:21:24 GMT
Message-ID: <erwin-030994091848_at_129.197.63.49>
In article <33si93INNhl3_at_rrzs3.uni-regensburg.de>, c3055_at_rphc10 (Alexander Dauensteiner) wrote:
> We are running Version 7.0.16.4 for Solaris 2.3 on a Sparc 10.
> The installation worked perfectly alright but hardly any applications work.
> The ones which do work are sqldba and sqlplus.
>
> When I invoke other applications from the shell I get various
> error messages or
> no result at all. Here are some examples:
>
> f40desm =>
> FRM-91109: Internal Error -- Application startup failure.
> FRM-10039: Unable to start up the Oracle Forms designer.
>
> oragraph20m => no reaction
> g20runm => no reaction
>
> f40genm =>
> FRM-91500: Unable to start/complete the generation.
>
> rtdemo scott/tiger =>
> rtguide scott/tiger =>
> No such device to application map xterm in terminal resource file oraterm.r.
>
> orasoundm =>
> Error in starting up application context.
> Check your ORACLE_HOME setting.
>
> (but ORACLE_HOME *IS* set)
>
> orarep20m =>
> REP-0006: Warning: Syntax error at line 2 in user preference file.
> REP-3300: Fatal error in Toolkit II (UI).
> UI-1: Undefined failure in UI.
>
> browserm =>
> Environment variable ORACLE_HOME undefined or incorrect
> BRW-15004 Internal Error
>
> (but ORACLE_HOME *IS* set)
>
>
> and on and on and on....
>
> So how do I user the binaries correctly?
>
> Alex
This Oracle Bulletin may help.
Dave Erwin
Lockheed Missiles & Space Company
Email: erwin_at_lmsc.lockheed.com
The opinions expressed are those of the author and not necessarily those of Lockheed Corporation.
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Oracle Worldwide Support
Bulletin
Bulletin : 106218.846
Author : HTSALAPA
Category : UNIX
Headline : CDE SETUP TIPS
Document ID: 106218.846
Title: CDE Setup Tips
Creation Date: 11 August 1994
Last Revision Date: 22 August 1994
Revision Number: 0
Product: CDE
Product Version: II
Platform: UNIX
Information Type: ADVISORY
Impact: Medium
Abstract: This bulletins contains tips for setting up
the CDE tools.
Keywords: CDE;SETUP;REQUIREMENTS;ENVIRONMENT
______________________________________________________________________
CDE Setup Tips
Software Requirements
---------------------
If you plan to relink your CDE executables, for example to add user
exits, on most UNIX platforms you must have X11R5 and Motif 1.2.2
on your machine.
If you don't plan to relink (that is, plan to use the CDE executables as
they come on the distribution media) on most UNIX platforms you must have
X11R4.
Look in the CDE tools release update for platform-specific requirements.
For most platforms, CDE I is certified against version 7.0.15 of the RDBMS.
CDE II is certified against version 7.0.16.
Installation
------------
* Read carefully the CDE Release Update for your platform, particularly
chapter "CDE Installation and Configuration". Sections "Completing
the Installation Tasks for the GUI Mode Environment" and "Setting
up the GUI User Interface" in this chapter provide post-installation
procedures related to the GUI environment.
* The CDE tools come with their own installer. Make sure to read in the
correct version of the installer from the CDE distribution.
* The CDE tools have a motif and a character based version. The motif
version
offers a developing environment (designer) and a runtime environment.
The character based version offers only the runtime environment, that
is it offers no designer executable. The installer offers the option
of installing either one or both versions of the tools.
Environment Setup
-----------------
Make sure to setup the following environment variables:
* DISPLAY should be set to <ipaddress>:0.0
If DISPLAY is not set you will get something like:
FRM-91111 Internal error -- Window system startup failure
FRM-10039 Unable to startup the Oracle forms designer
* LD_LIBRARY_PATH. Add $ORACLE_HOME/lib to your
LD_LIBRARY_PATH. This variable shows where to look for runtime
libraries. Oracle provides some of the runtime libraries needed
for running the CDE tools. After the CDE installation they
reside in $ORACLE_HOME/lib, so this directory should be added
to your LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
If when bringing up the CDE tools you get an error like:
ld.so: libssl.so.7 not found
This means that this library is not found in the current search path.
Check to see where this library is located (most propably under
$ORACLE_HOME/lib) and add this directory to the LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
* For the character based version of the tools, you must specify
the resource file to be used. This is determined by the
ORACLE_TERM environment variable. Set this variable to point to
one of the resource files in the $ORACLE_HOME/<CDE_tool>/admin/terminal
directory. For Forms 4.0 you must also set the variable FORMS_DEVICE
to point to the device you want to use from the specified
resource file.
* The CDE tools search for applications in the current working
directory. If you plan to store you applications in another
directory set your ORACLE_PATH environment variable to point
to the directory where the files will be located.
* To get debugging information, set DEBUG_SLFIND to true.
* If you plan to store temporary files in a directory other than /tmp
set the TMPDIR variable to point to that directory.
* Use REP_PATH to point to directories storing external objects you
plan to use with your reports. This variable is set by default to
.:$ORACLE_HOME/reports20.
Overview of resources
---------------------
The CDE tools use two types of resource files:
* Tk2Motif files, that reside in $ORACLE_HOME/guicommon/admin.
The information is these files is directed to actual motif
widgets. There are several resources that can be set for each
widget. For more information on these resources refer to
the OSF/Motif Programmer's Reference. Most of these resources
should not be modified. However you can experiment with colors
and fonts.
$ORACLE_HOME/guicommon/admin/resource contains resource files
of the form Tk2Motif.[ext], where ext is one of the following:
bw -- for monochrome displays
gs -- for grayscale displays
rgb -- for color displays. This defaults to sky blue.
Alternates for color displays are:
rose -- sets the CDE windows to a rose color
steel -- sets the CDE windows to a steel blue color
gray -- sets the CDE windows to a gray color
To customize the appearence of your CDE tools, copy one of the
above files to $HOME/Tk2Motif and set the resources in this
file to the desired values.
* Oracle terminal files, that reside in
$ORACLE_HOME/<CDE_tool>/admin/terminal (for the character-based
version of CDE) or in $ORACLE_HOME/<CDE_tool>/admin/resource
(for the motif version). This files end with the suffix .res.
These files contain information about keymappings, colors and
fonts. You can customize your .res files using Oracle Terminal
version 2.
Platform specific issues
------------------------
* CDE tools core dump on SunOS.
Make sure that you have the file:
/usr/lib/X11/C/Codeset
If you don't, do the following:
mkdir -p /usr/lib/X11/C
cp $ORACLE_HOME/guicommon/tk2/admin/C/Codeset /usr/lib/X11/C/.
* CDE tools core dump on Sun Solaris.
Make sure that you have the directory
/usr/lib/X11/nls
If not, create it.
* FRM-91111 and FRM-10039 on Sun Solaris.
FRM-91111 Internal error -- Window system startup failure
FRM-10039 Unable to startup the Oracle forms designer
If your DISPLAY variable is set properly but the CDE tools
give the above errors when coming up, make sure that
the directory /usr/lib/X11/nls exists. If not, create it.
* Some known problems with the X server on SunOS 4.1.3 can
be fixed by applying patch 100444-37 provided by Sun.
References
----------
* The ORACLE CDE Release Update for each platform.
* OSF/Motif Programmer's Reference.
* Oracle Terminal User's Guide.
Received on Sat Sep 03 1994 - 18:21:24 CEST