Re: Do sites actually install Oracle themselves ? What a nightmare...

From: JP Srinath <jp_at_queen.plaza.nt.com>
Date: 1996/07/19
Message-ID: <rpafwwjtgg.fsf_-__at_queen.plaza.nt.com>#1/1


It's not fair for you guys to judge a sortware product by just the ease of installation.

It's highly tunable product and hence no amount of GUI is going to help much, unless you know what you are doing!

Happy Installation

P.S. Nowonder Oracle is the Bread & Butter to many folks

  • Start of forwarded message ------- From: morganm_at_ecst.csuchico.edu (Mike Morgan) Subject: Re: Do sites actually install Oracle themselves ? What a nightmare... Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle,comp.sys.hp.hpux Date: 18 Jul 1996 23:30:14 GMT Organization: California State University, Chico Path: bcarh8ab.bnr.ca!bmerhc5e.bnr.ca!bcarh189.bnr.ca!nott!utnut!utcsri!rutgers!news.iag.net!newsfeeder.sdsu.edu!newspump.sol.net!daily-planet.execpc.com!spool.mu.edu!olivea!charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu!morganm Lines: 28 Message-ID: <4smhe6$qe3_at_charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu> References: <DuqEy4.Kzt_at_csc.liv.ac.uk> <31EE956D.D2_at_ibm.net> <31EE439E.6906_at_ha.hac.com> <irvin-1807961343240001_at_butch.lmsc.lockheed.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: pitbull.ecst.csuchico.edu Xref: bcarh8ab.bnr.ca comp.databases.oracle:67777 comp.sys.hp.hpux:40130

In article <irvin-1807961343240001_at_butch.lmsc.lockheed.com>, Tim Irvin <irvin_at_lmsc.lockheed.com> wrote:

>We couldn't use 7.3.1 because it needs HP-UX 10. So we decided to stay
>with 7.2.3...but it needed Motif 1.2.4. We had Motif 1.2.0 installed
>(HP-UX 9.01, unpatched for Motif) and the Oracle consultant, working with
>the tech support over the phone, said we needed two HP patches to get
>us up to Motif 1.2.4.
>
>Well, those patches were gone and superseded by patches which incorporated
>Motif 1.2.5. So I downloaded and installed those...and the Motif Server
>Manager *still* won't compile. Oracle support still says that it needs
>1.2.4, and that 1.2.5 won't work. Neither our on-site contractor nor I
>believe that...but it won't compile just the same.

Believe them. I didn't belive them when they told me that Motif 1.2.5 was causing my problems, but after much brain bashing on why all my Oracle Motif apps were dumping core with mysterious X errors, I went back to Motif 1.2.4, relinked everything and haven't had a problem since.

Mike

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