Re: Do sites actually install Oracle themselves ? What a nightmare...
Date: 1996/07/19
Message-ID: <rpafwwjtgg.fsf_-__at_queen.plaza.nt.com>#1/1
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Well, those patches were gone and superseded by patches which incorporated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
-- -- Mike Morgan morganm_at_ecst.csuchico.edu ------- End of forwarded message -------Received on Fri Jul 19 1996 - 00:00:00 CEST